This time a year ago, British observers at Queen’s Club crossed their fingers and hoped for the best as Jack Draper faced defending champion and super-talent Carlos Alcaraz in the last 16. It was an unenviable draw, to say the least.

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The tennis carnival will shift to the Queen's Club Championships in London this week. The top players on tour are set to battle it out for 500 points at the high-profile grass court event.

Ten of the Top 20 players in the PIF WTA Rankings will vie for this year's first WTA 500 grass-court title at the HSBC Championships at the prestigious Queen's Club. WTA tennis will return to this site for the first time since 1973.

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Alcaraz, who won Queen's in 2023 and is defending Wimbledon champion, had considered missing the event after winning the French Open.

Zheng will play either the third seed Emma Navarro or eighth seed Amanda Anisimova in the semi-finals, before a potential final showdown with Australian Open champion Madison Keys or German qualifier Tatjana Maria, who stunned former Wimbledon winner Elena Rybakina earlier in the afternoon.

Emma Raducanu cruised into the quarter-finals at the Queen's Club Championships with a 6-4 6-1 victory over Rebecca Sramkova on Thursday but fellow Britons Katie Boulter and Heather Watson were knocked out.