Victory is particularly important for the British No 1 as the defeat of Taylor Fritz yesterday means Draper could earn himself a top-four seeding at Wimbledon, which would mean him avoiding the likes of Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev in the early rounds at the All Engand Club.

Draper defeated Popyrin in a two-hour, three-set battle of attrition to reach the quarter-finals, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(5)

Jack Draper prevailed in a third-set tiebreaker to beat Australia's Alexei Popyrin 6-3, 2-6, 6-7 (7) in the round of 16 at Queen's on Wednesday.