Draper stuns Alcaraz to reach Indian Wells final

Britain's Jack Draper was helped by a arguable video adjunct referee-style telephone successful his favour to gain a coming-of-age triumph implicit Carlos Alcaraz and scope the biggest last of his career.

Draper, 23, stunned four-time large champion Alcaraz with a 6-1 0-6 6-4 triumph successful a melodramatic semi-final astatine Indian Wells.

The British fig one, who served retired the lucifer astatine the 2nd attempt, volition determination into the world's apical 10 for the archetypal clip successful his vocation arsenic a result.

The pivotal infinitesimal of a bizarre lucifer successful California came erstwhile England's Draper was rescued by video exertion successful the 3rd crippled of the deciding acceptable - and went connected to interruption Alcaraz's serve.

With the people astatine 1-1, and the crippled 15-15 connected Alcaraz's serve, the shot was adjudged by umpire Mohamed Lahyani to person bounced doubly earlier Draper reached it.

It was intelligibly a incorrect call, but Draper successfully asked for a replay which allowed Lahyani to overturn the decision.

Given the constituent for a 15-30 lead, Draper went connected to unafraid a interruption which yet proved the difference.

The left-hander goes connected to look Denmark's Holger Rune successful Sunday's last astatine the Masters 1000 event.

Rune, ranked 13th successful the world, reached the 4th Masters last of his vocation with a 7-5 6-4 triumph implicit Russian 5th effect Daniil Medvedev.

Meanwhile, Britain's Olivia Nicholls missed retired connected a archetypal WTA 1000 rubric aft losing successful the Indian Wells women's doubles final.

Nicholls, 30, and her Slovakian spouse Tereza Mihalikova were beaten 6-2 7-6 (7-4) by Dutch subordinate Demi Schuurs and the USA's Asia Muhammad.

Nevertheless, it has been different productive week for the pair, who person formed a beardown concern since linking up past May.

Nicholls has already becoming Britain's starring women's doubles subordinate and, aft competing successful her archetypal last astatine the level beneath the Grand Slams, volition ascent to a career-high 31st spot successful the satellite rankings.