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British fig 1 Jack Draper progressed to the Japan Open quarter-finals with a straight-set triumph implicit fig 2 effect Hubert Hurkacz.
The unseeded 22-year-old, who reached the US Open semi-finals earlier this month, took 84 minutes to beet the Pole 6-2 6-4 successful Tokyo.
Draper won 2 of 7 interruption constituent opportunities and saved 3 of his own.
The triumph was the satellite fig 20's 3rd against a top-10 hostile successful 2024 - his astir successful a azygous season.
He volition adjacent play the victor of the lucifer betwixt France's Ugo Humbert and America' s Brandon Nakashima.
Hurkacz's exit means 5 of the 8 seeded players person been knocked out, with Taylor Fritz, Casper Ruud, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Frances Tiafoe losing successful the archetypal round.
Elsewhere, America's Ben Shelton bushed Argentina's Mariano Navone 6-4 6-3 to besides publication a quarter-final spot.
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