Live Jack Draper vs Brandon Nakashima: Score and latest updates from Queen's quarter-final

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Simon Briggs Tennis Correspondent, at Queen's Club. live updates
20 June 2025 2:36pm
2:36PM
Nakashima* 4 Draper 5
Draper wastes a brilliant return by blasting a forehand wide. Put too much on it.
A good serve and it;s 30-love.
Draper returns well again and stays patient at the baseline this time. The tactic pays off a Nakashima goes too deep with his backhand. 15-30.
Great defence by Draper, who returned a vicious kicking serve. Nakashima has an open-court volley but nets it! 30-all.
Fantastic cross-court backhand from Draper finds the corner and brings up set point.
Nakashima unleashes a massive second serve into Draper's body. Ballsy on set-point. 'Good serve' says Draper sportingly.
Draper batters the second serve this time, which was slower than the last. Advantage Draper.
A good serve restores deuce.
What a passing shot that is from Draper.
Nakashima plays a lovely deep volley from the net and Draper looks beaten all ends up. Somehow, though, he fashions a top-spin pass that curves out of court an then back in again at the last second. Another set point.
Nakashima plays two commanding service points to earn Advantage. He is coming more the net now, putting Draper under pressure to come up with miracle shots.
Draper nets a regulation forehand and the American holds on to stay alive.
Nakashima holds serve.
2:27PM
Nakashima 3 Draper* 5
New balls.
A food serve is returned by Nakashima but he can't get back Draper's follow-up drive.
Draper goes long for 15-all.
Two powerful serves the latter an arcing effort that sends Nakashima wide, gives the Briton 40-15.
Draper serves out with ease.
Draper holds serve.
2:24PM
Nakashima* 3 Draper 4
Four good serves including a ferocious ace at the end earn Nakashima a quick and easy love game – in stark contrast to the last.
Nakashima holds serve.
2:22PM
Nakashima 2 Draper* 4
A good return from Nakashima is reached by Draper but he can't quite lift his attempted pass over the net.
A poor forehand by Draper hands the world No 32 cheap point. 0-30.
A big serve elicits a 'Come on' from Draper, but now he's two reak points down after a double-fault.
Lovely tennis by Draper saves the first of them, he sends the American left and right and then brings him to the net with another drop shot before firing into the en court.
Two good serves and more 'Come ons' and it's advantage to the British No 1
Draper performs another drop shot which Nakashima does really well t reach. Draper just misses with his attempted cross-court forehand pass. Deuce.
A bad choice of drop shot that time and Nakashima ties Draper up with a big forehand into his body. Advantage Draper.
This time Draper races to the net after two nice approach shot and savages deuce.
The fastest serve of the match at 135kph gives Draper game point.
But Draper hits Nakashima's return into the tramlines for deuce.
A big serve by Draper brings up Advantage. And another one gives him a hard-earned game.
Draper digs himself out of a hole despite some suspect shot selections.
Draper holds serve.
2:12PM
Nakashima* 2 Draper 3
Draper tries to punish Nakashima's slower second serve but hits well wide. 15-0.
Draper foils his opponents with whipped forehand that drops on the line at the last second. 15-15.
Fantastic return by Draper even gets the applause of Nakashima. 15-30.
Draper is in the zone now and hits a vicious passing shot down the line for two break points.
Nakashima saves them both with a big serve and an unforced error from Draper.
The American catches Draper on his heels with a deep cross-court forehand, and Nakashima serves out well to survive the scare.
Nakashima holds serve.
2:08PM
Nakashima 1 Draper* 3
Draper loses the first point but redeems himself with a nasty body serve.
Nakashima sends three backhands long from the baseline in successive points to give Draper the game to 15.
Draper holds serve.
2:03PM
Nakashima* 1 Draper 2
Nakashima begins with a double-fault and then is unable to return a ferocious Draper forehand. 0-30.
Two monster serves bring the game back to parity, but the American commits another double-fault for break point.
Nakashima saves it after a long rally i which Draer returned brilliantly and then stayed in the rally, only to get over eager and hit a forenah into the tramlines.
Another fine serve gives Advantage to the American, but Draper puts the pressure on with some pulverising forehands forcing his opponent to net.
Nakashima takes the initiative with a big serve but it's deuce again after Draper executes a sneaky drop-shot that Nakashima reaches but can only net.
Outstanding rally as Draper earns himself another break-point. Both players teased with the baseline and the sidelines but Draper takes the point with an emphatic smash.
Nakashima saves himself with another serve – measured at 131kph.
Another entertaining rally concluded by Draper with a lovely drop shot from the baseline, which he follows up with a neat volley. Break point number three.
And Nakashima gets it all wrong, mishitting a regulation forehand to hand Draper the first break of serve.
Draper is looking smooth and confident here in the early stages. I saw him on the balcony yesterday and he said he was feeling better, after dealing with a heavy cold early in the week.
Getting through the Popyrin second-round match on Wednesday was a decent effort in the circumstances.
Nakashima, on paper, is the sort of match you want, because he gives you rhythm and he doesn't have Popyrin's point-ending power. But he is a very crafty player nevertheless, and his serve is deceptively strong.
Draper breaks serve.
1:53PM
Nakashima 1 Draper* 1
A nice start by Draper who fires down an unreturnable serve and then coaxes Nakashima into hitting long n the next point.
A big serve brings up 40 love and he fires a delightful forehand winner down the line for a solid hold.
Draper holds serve.
1:51PM
Nakashima* 1 Draper 0
Nakishima gets the match under way and begins convincingly, serving a couple of rocket serves that Draper cannot return.
When he does get the ball back in play a ling rally ensues with both players hitting hard and deep and Nakashima hitting the tramlines.
He serves another missile for 40-15 and then delivers an impressive second serve to take the game with ease.
Nakashima holds serve.
1:43PM
Nakashima to land another home blow?
Draper came though a really tight match against Alexei Popyrin in the last round, coming from a set down to win 3-6, 6-2, 7-6, changing his racket in the middle of the final-set tie-break.
Today's opponent Brandon Nakashima is a big-serving American who looks at home on grass. The world No 32 already has one British scalp to his name, having beaten Dan Evans in two closely contested sets in the previous round.
Nakashima is the latest in a growing list of impressive American tennis players. coming in the wake of Tommy Paul, who won this event last year, and Taylor Fritz, the world No 4.
The 23-yeaar-old is not to be underestimated.

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