{"id":10871,"date":"2025-02-19T19:33:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/qatar-open-jack-draper-storms-past-christopher-oconnell-to-reach-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T19:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:33:44","slug":"qatar-open-jack-draper-storms-past-christopher-oconnell-to-reach-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/qatar-open-jack-draper-storms-past-christopher-oconnell-to-reach-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Open: Jack Draper storms past Christopher O&#8217;Connell to reach quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British number one Jack Draper stormed into the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open with a dominant victory over Christopher O&#8217;Connell.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Draper did not face a single break point and needed just 59 minutes to wrap up a 6-2 6-1 win against the Australian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world number 16 is playing his first tournament since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cy9ld89198no\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">retiring injured<\/a> from his fourth-round meeting with Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz at January&#8217;s Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He broke serve in the first game of the match and again at 4-2 before serving out the opener, while O&#8217;Connell won just one game in the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Draper will face Tallon Griekspoor or Matteo Berrettini, who knocked out Novak Djokovic in straight sets on Tuesday, in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old remains on course for a semi-final encounter with Alcaraz, who beat Italy&#8217;s Luca Nardi 6-1 4-6 6-3 later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four-time major winner Alcaraz is now on a 12-match winning streak at ATP 500 events and will play Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere in Doha, Alex de Minaur claimed his 200th tour-level hard-court win with a 6-4 6-4 victory over Botic van de Zandschulp to set up a quarter-final against fifth seed Andrey Rublev, who beat Nuno Borges 6-3 6-4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number six Daniil Medvedev defeated Zizou Bergs 6-2 6-1 and will face Felix Auger-Aliassime, after the Canadian was handed a walkover as Serbia&#8217;s Hamad Medjedovic withdrew because of injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c70wjywqlxjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British number one Jack Draper stormed into the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open with a dominant victory over Christopher O&#8217;Connell. Draper did not face a single break point and needed just 59 minutes to wrap up a 6-2 6-1 win against the Australian. The world number 16 is playing his first tournament since retiring injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10873,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions\/10873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}