Tennis: Britain’s men thrive and grow at the US Open

For the first time in over fifty years, a British quartet made it to the third round of the Open

Jack Drapper celebrating win on Day Three of US Open
Jack Drapper: the youngest of Britain’s ‘Fab Four’
(Image credit: Julian Finney/Staff/Getty Images)

After Emma Raducanu’s victory at last year’s US Open, all the talk was of British women’s tennis being on the brink of a spectacular revival, said Mike Dickson in the Daily Mail. Yet we were looking in the wrong direction: the real success story has been on the men’s side.

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