Britain's Draper reaches Stuttgart Open final

Jack Draper lost his previous match with Brandon Nakashima in the 2022 Next Gen Finals

Britain's Jack Draper is into the third ATP final of his career - and the first on grass - after breezing past unseeded American Brandon Nakashima at the Stuttgart Open.

The 22-year-old sixth seed, who beat defending champion Frances Tiafoe, of the USA, in the quarter-finals, hit 13 aces and 35 winners in a 6-3 6-3 victory.

Draper will move up to 32nd in the world, no matter what happens in Sunday's final, and into a potential seeded position for Wimbledon, which starts on 1 July.

He will be confirmed as the British number one on Monday, moving above Cameron Norrie, and is now one match away from a first singles title on the elite men's tour.

Draper will meet either Italian fifth-seed Lorenzo Musetti or former Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini in Sundays' final.

Berretini is unseeded in the tournament after slipping to 95 in the world rankings following a series of injuries, but the Italian is a two-time former winner in Stuttgart and has claimed four of his eight career titles on grass.