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While we’re waiting for the action to start: Here are the day nine match reports for your perusal.
Two months ago, amid Andy Murray’s tearful farewell to Wimbledon and Jack Draper’s first grand slam tournament as the British No 1, Draper was anointed by the scriptwriters as Murray’s ready-made successor, someone who could grasp the baton immediately and carry home hopes that fortnight. He’d had an eye-catching build-up to Wimbledon, beating Carlos Alcaraz at Queen’s and winning his first ATP Tour title in Stuttgart, but he couldn’t adjust to the increased expectations and the 22-year-old was bundled out in the second round by the British No 2 Cameron Norrie, who then lost in the next round himself.