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British number one Jack Draper reached the Erste Bank Open final by beating Italian Lorenzo Musetti in straight sets in Vienna.<\/b><\/p>\n
Seventh seed Draper broke the serve of sixth seed Musetti five times to beat his fellow 22-year-old 6-2 6-4 and reach his first ATP 500 final.<\/p>\n
Draper has won one ATP 250 title – the Stuttgart Open in June.<\/p>\n
“I suppose it is my biggest final yet,” Draper said.<\/p>\n
This has been a stellar year for Draper, with the highlight being his run to the US Open semi-finals in September.<\/p>\n
Now he will move to a career-high ranking, inside the top 16 for the first time.<\/p>\n
He said: “I have been in 250 finals, Grand Slam semis, obviously a bigger match than tomorrow, but at the same time to be in the final of a 500 after all the work I put in this year and the season I have had, I am incredibly grateful.”<\/p>\n
One difference between ATP 250 and ATP 500 titles is the amount of ranking points a player earns for winning a tournament.<\/p>\n
Victory over Musetti moved Draper to provisional world number 15, leapfrogging the Italian.<\/p>\n
Draper will play Karen Khachanov in Sunday’s final after the unseeded Russian beat second seed Alex de Minaur – also by a 6-2 6-4 margin.<\/p>\n
World number 24 Khachanov, 28, resisted a De Minaur fightback in the second set, when the Australian recovered a break of serve.<\/p>\n
Khachanov will be attempting to win the eighth ATP singles title of his career, and a third of the year after wins in Qatar and – only last weekend – in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n