.Among the quarterfinal competitions in the best half of the USA Open draw is what everybody believed our experts would see: Jannik Criminal vs. Daniil Medvedev.The other one is so much more of a surprise: Alex de Minaur vs. Port Draper.De Minaur extend a hard-to-believe streak of games won to 18 straight when he took the initial set off Jordan Thompson throughout their fourth-round suit on Monday. The globe No. 10, that found yourself winning the all-Australian gathering 6-0, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, formerly reeled off the final 12 games of his third-round showdown against Dan Evans. De Minaur double-bageled the Brit in the last 2 collections, prevailing 6-3, 6-7( 4 ), 6-0, 6-0." I can't claim I don't forget if I've ever before carried out that, yet yes, undoubtedly I left to a great beginning today," the 25-year-old mentioned after finishing off Thompson. "However the funny thing about succeeding sets 6-0, I don't think it's the best point around the world-- due to the fact that I think that there's a little more extra stress as well as your challenger simply loosens up a bit more.
" Yet yeah, once again, I could not have requested for a much better start today as well as I assume it was very important. Yeah, (I) can not always remember the last opportunity I succeeded 18 games straight." De Minaur is into the last 8 at a third successive significant, having actually also met this phase at Roland Garros (lost to Alexander Zverev in upright collections) as well as Wimbledon (taken out versus Novak Djokovic as a result of a hip accident). De Minaur is 3-0 life-time versus Draper. Medvedev holds a 7-5 report in his head-to-head collection along with Criminal moving in to Wednesday.Ricky contributes to 10sballs. com and also maintains his very own tennis internet site, The Grandstand. You may follow him on Twitter at @Dimonator.