Jack Draper v Alexei Popyrin live: Queen’s tennis scores and updates as Brit bids for quarter-finals spot

Roberto Bautista Agut and Jakub Mensik are still locked in battle on the Andy Murray Arena, and could be set to slog it out for a while longer.

Mensik took the first set 6-3, but the Spaniard reciprocated, taking the second 6-3 to force a decider.

Draper and Popyrin are unlikely to be out before 2.15pm as a result.

Roberto Bautista Agut has just won the second set against Jakub Mensik!

That forces this match into a decider and will delay the start of Jack Draper verus Alexei Popyrin.

There’ll be at least another 40 minutes before the pair head out onto centre court.

Kieran Jackson has more on the new-look mixed doubles tournament, and how Carlos Alcaraz got on in his Queen’s opener:

A fortnight out from Wimbledon, with All England Club defending champion Carlos Alcaraz beginning his grass-court campaign in the 27C sunshine at Queen’s Club, it is highly unusual for another grand slam to steal the limelight. Yet in New York, they don’t care what feathers they ruffle on the streets of Kensington or Southfields.

Earlier this year, the US Open announced a new-look mixed doubles tournament to take place in the week preceding the major. With a winning purse of $1m, top singles players have been encouraged to participate in a two-day, quick-scoring format. For the tradition of grand-slam tennis, it is quite the radical shake-up, while for doubles specialists, some reliant on the earnings of mixed tennis, it amounts to something close to a slap in the face.

Yet on these shores, there’s no doubting where the main stardust pairing lies. Five-time major winner Alcaraz, the sport’s hottest property right now, is set to compete in a box-office duo alongside British No 1 Emma Raducanu.

New for 2025, the mixed doubles in New York will be staged in qualifying week on the two biggest courts, Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong, over Tuesday 19 August and Wednesday 20 August.

It means that the mixed doubles champions will be decided before even the draw for the singles events are announced.

As well as five-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz and 2021 US Open champion Raducanu, a host of other top names are competing alongside one another for the $1m champion prize – an increase of $800,000 from 2024.

World No 1 men’s player Jannik Sinner plays alongside American star Emma Navarro, Iga Swiatek will partner Casper Ruud and Nick Kyrgios plays with Naomi Osaka.

In a field of 16, eight pairs are decided on combined singles ranking at the end of July, while the other eight will be decided by a wild card committee.

Australian No 1 De Minaur – ranked No 12 in the world – and British player Boulter, world No 39, are not on the initial list of pairings.

“We’re definitely going to be keen to try and play if they allow us too,” De Minaur said, after his first-round loss at Queen’s Club on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old shared her experiences, which included death threats, with BBC Sport to highlight the issue of players encountering toxic messages on social media.

Since her interview aired, Boulter has been inundated with support.

“I looked on my phone this morning and literally there were hundreds of messages of people reacting to it and every single person was just telling me to disregard it and how much they love me and appreciate me bringing this subject into light,” she said following victory over Lulu Sun in the first round of the Lexus Nottingham Open.

Katie Boulter has revealed she has received multiple death threats and abuse after her performances on court and has even interacted with online trolls to help them better understand the damage they can cause.

The British No 2 has recalled how after she dropped a tie-break at the French Open last month against Carole Monnet, several gamblers messaged her online.

Boulter would go on to win her second round match at Roland Garros in three sets, yet she has been left in fear by the experience.

One user said, “hope you get cancer,” while another vowed to damage her “grandmother’s grave if she’s not dead by tomorrow.”

His name was red-flagged on the All England Club’s security system who subsequently blocked his attempt to enter the public ballot.

He had previously been given a restraining order by Dubai police in February after stalking Raducanu at four successive tennis tournaments in Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Dubai.

Raducanu broke down in tears at the Dubai Tennis Championships after she spotted the man in the crowd during a second-round clash with Karolina Muchova.

Teenagers Hannah Klugman, Mimi Xu and Mika Stojsavljevic will make their senior Wimbledon debuts at this summer’s Championships after being awarded main-draw wild cards.

Klugman and Stojsavljevic, both 16, and 17-year-old Xu are at the forefront of an exciting generation of British youngsters.

Dan Evans is also in action later on today, after his brilliant first-round win opened the tournament on Monday:

Only two summers ago Dan Evans was up at a career-high ranking of 21st in the world. Now the Birmingham-born player is just a fraction inside the top 200, having dropped out of it altogether earlier this year.

His season so far has been one of hard grind with little reward, spent largely plugging away on the lower-tier, lower-profile Challenger tour. He has only won one ATP-level match this season, on the grass last week at ’s-Hertogenbosch, where he came through qualifying to reach the last-16.

However, somewhere the Brit always comes alive is on the grass. And under bright Queen’s Club sunshine on the Andy Murray Arena, Evans produced some of his best inventive, classy tennis to dismantle the world No 13 and seventh seed Frances Tiafoe. His 7-5, 6-2 win was his first top-20 Tour-level victory since October 2023 (coincidentally, also over the American).