{"id":6218,"date":"2024-10-30T01:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/paris-masters-britains-jack-draper-beats-jiri-lehecka-to-reach-second-round\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T01:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T01:35:53","slug":"paris-masters-britains-jack-draper-beats-jiri-lehecka-to-reach-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/paris-masters-britains-jack-draper-beats-jiri-lehecka-to-reach-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Masters: Britain&#8217;s Jack Draper beats Jiri Lehecka to reach second round"},"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 cruised through to the second round of the Paris Masters with a straight-set win over the Czech Republic&#8217;s Jiri Lehecka.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Draper, who won the biggest title of his career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/clyjj2l7lpjo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in Vienna on Sunday<\/a>, won 7-5 6-2 in one hour eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A tight first set went to serve before Draper made the crucial break in the 11th game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Briton dominated the second set, reeling off five games in a row to seal victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will now face American fifth seed Taylor Fritz in the second round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old left-hander, who reached his maiden Grand Slam semi-final at the US Open last month, rose to a career-high ranking of 15th in the world on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain&#8217;s Carlos Alcaraz is through to the third round after a 7-5 6-1 win over Chilean Nicolas Jarry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second seed, who was given a bye in the first round, will face France&#8217;s Ugo Humbert or American Marcos Giron in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Alex de Minaur boosted his chances of qualifying for the season-ending ATP Finals with a 7-5 6-1 first-round win over Mariano Navone of Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">De Minaur will replace Andrey Rublev in the final qualification position with a run to the quarter-finals in Paris and plays Serbia&#8217;s Miomir Kecmanovic next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russian sixth seed Rublev, who was also given a first-round bye, is out after a 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-5) defeat by Argentina&#8217;s Francisco Cerundolo.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c0qd0k8dy0ko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British number one Jack Draper cruised through to the second round of the Paris Masters with a straight-set win over the Czech Republic&#8217;s Jiri Lehecka. Draper, who won the biggest title of his career in Vienna on Sunday, won 7-5 6-2 in one hour eight minutes. A tight first set went to serve before Draper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6218","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\/6218","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=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}