{"id":8791,"date":"2025-06-20T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/queens-club-2025-jack-draper-enters-the-semi-finals-for-the-first-time-ever\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:10:13","slug":"queens-club-2025-jack-draper-enters-the-semi-finals-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/queens-club-2025-jack-draper-enters-the-semi-finals-for-the-first-time-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s Club 2025: Jack Draper enters the semi-finals for the first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0620%2Fr1509119_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0620%2Fr1509119_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0620%2Fr1509119_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0620%2Fr1509119_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Jack Draper reached the semi-finals with Queens for the first time in his career after beating US Brandon Nakashima 4-6, 7-5, 4-6.<\/p>\n<p>This victory means that Draper will be ranked fourth in the world rankings and have the top four seed at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The support I received this week was amazing. I&#8217;m used to fighting on the grass, but being in the semi-finals is something I&#8217;ve wanted since I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve played some great tennis at times. At that moment, I was just trying to believe in myself and that&#8217;s where I think it was where I found confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s first will face Giri Lehecca in tomorrow&#8217;s Semfinal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jacob Fianley knocked out in the quarter-finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<photo2>\n<p>British No. 2 Jacob Fianley was knocked out of Queens Club after a 7-5, 6-2 drop by Czech Lehecca on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Fearnley began well under the sun in western London before he struggled with serves in a series of double fault-fall performances, including six of the games in which Lehecka defeated his serve.<\/p>\n<p>After returning from 3-1 in the first set, Lehekka grew into a match, with another double break winning the 100th ATP Tour, securing the semi-final against Draper and continuing momentum into the second set.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/45550744\/visualisation\/23462677?2490397\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/photo2><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Draper reached the semi-finals with Queens for the first time in his career after beating US Brandon Nakashima 4-6, 7-5, 4-6. This victory means that Draper will be ranked fourth in the world rankings and have the top four seed at Wimbledon. &#8220;The support I received this week was amazing. I&#8217;m used to fighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[795,196,2569,182,2523,1849,24,607],"class_list":{"0":"post-8791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-club","9":"tag-draper","10":"tag-enters","11":"tag-jack","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-semifinals","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-time"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}