British number one Jack Draper reached the final of the Qatar Open with a 3-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-3 victory against Jiri Lehecka.

The Czech Republic's Lehecka took control of the opening set after breaking serve in the eighth game, before a more even second set went to a tie-break.

Draper - who defeated former Wimbledon runner-up Matteo Berrettini on Thursday - produced a near-flawless performance in the tie-break to send the match to a decider.

The final set went with serve until a double fault from Lehecka gifted the 23-year-old Briton a break, with the Czech throwing his racket to the floor in frustration.

Draper, whose recent injury problems have been well-documented, broke serve again with his second match point to give himself a chance of winning a third career title.

"I thought in the first set I put in a sloppy game," Draper said.

"I started to get a lead on his [Lehecka's] serve, holding easier and creating a lot of pressure behind his serve.

"I felt more positive as the match went on. I'm proud of the way I competed out there."

Draper, who reached the Australian Open fourth round in January, will meet Andrey Rublev in Saturday's final after the Russian defeated Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-5 4-6 7-6 (7-5).

An even contest came down to a thrilling deciding set, with world number 10 Rublev securing victory with his fourth match point.

"I feel that I'm playing better and better week by week, I'm improving," said Rublev, who has won all three previous meetings with Draper.

Mirra Andreeva defeated former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina to reach the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships.

The 17-year-old Russian beat the 2022 Wimbledon winner 6-4 4-6 6-3, winning the last five games in a row from 3-1 down in the decider.

Andreeva became the youngest player to reach the semi-finals of the tournament by eliminating world number two Iga Swiatek in straight sets on Thursday.

Having beaten Marketa Vondrousova in the second round, Andreeva is the youngest player to beat three Grand Slam champions in a single tournament since her compatriot Maria Sharapova did so at the WTA Finals in 2004.

Andreeva will look to win the second title of her career when she plays Denmark's Clara Tauson, who defeated Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic 6-4 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 in the other semi-final.

Tauson, who knocked out world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the last 16, needed almost three hours to defeat Muchova and reach her first WTA 1,000 final.

British number one Jack Draper was beaten in three sets by Andrey Rublev in the Qatar Open final.

Draper was seeking a third career ATP Tour title but lost 7-5 5-7 6-1 to the world number 10 in Doha.

The opening two sets featured just one break of serve for either player, but the decider was more one-sided.

As Draper visibly tired, Rublev broke twice to race into a 4-0 lead, before comfortably holding serve to seal victory.

Despite the disappointment Draper, who reached the Australian Open fourth round in January, will rise up to a career-high 12th in the world rankings.

"It has been an amazing week - congratulations to Andrey, he was just too good today," said the 23-year-old, who has lost three of the five ATP Tour finals he has played in.

"He outlasted me. We have both played some really tough matches this week and he was just too strong for me in the third set.

It is Rublev's second Qatar Open title after lifting the trophy in 2020, the first time he has won the same event on two occasions.

"It is amazing. It is the first title I have won twice so I am really happy," said Rublev.

"We were both exhausted after some long matches this week. It was difficult but we were able to play to a good level.

"After the second set, I started to play much more free - he was more tired. I was able to break him and the match changed completely."

In golf, round three is "moving day". It's a tournament's watershed, where contenders rise and pretenders are washed away.

You can't win the title on moving day, they say, but you can certainly lose it.

Round three duly proved to be where England and Scotland's Six Nations fortunes diverged dramatically.

With leaders Ireland wobbling to a win in Cardiff, France Dublin-bound and the prospect of Italy and Wales to come - both distinct bonus-point birdie chances - England are in the title mix.

Scotland are not.

It is a big difference decided by margins of a single point and few millimetres.

England have spent much of the past six months on the wrong side of those final quarters and narrow scorelines.

Now, after shocking France at Twickenham a fortnight ago, they have found a happy habit of finding a way to win as the match teeters, nerves strain and muscles stiffen.

There were other similarities to a fortnight ago.

Scotland, like France, moved the ball with dexterity and speed that England aspire to, but seldom achieve.

The visitors dominated the attacking stats. They had more possession and territory. They made 13 trips to the opposition 22m, compared to England's four. They made nine line breaks to two. Nearly 200m more metres with ball in hand. Thirty-five defenders beaten compared to 10.

You could go on. And doubtless some Scotland fans will as they pick over the pieces of another defeat in which their endeavour and good intentions went to waste.

Frenchman Pierre Brousset's refereeing of the breakdown, where England won seven turnovers, and the scrum - where the hosts picked up three penalties - might also be part of the inquest.

Finn Russell's screwy kicking performance, in which three potentially decisive conversion shots slipped by, won't escape unnoticed either.

When the going was good for Scotland, they were clever and relentless in getting to the edges and ripping England to shreds, the only team with any interest in playing rugby.

England kicked and tackled. Their fans sighed and groaned. Scotland could and should have been a dozen points clear, a buffer that might have seen them through. The rapier was doing a job on the bludgeon in that opening 40 and yet the rapier only led by three at the break.

England's defence was a car crash in the first half and a thing of ferocity in the second. It was the one part of their game that was world class as the contest wore on. Scrambling, scragging and shunting Scotland back with their power - this was a victory for defence.

When you've lost four in a row to Scotland you'll take the win in whatever form it comes. Ugly, sure. Flawed, no doubt about it. There's plenty wrong with England's attack and Steve Borthwick's ongoing battle to get the best out of his players, but nothing at all wrong with their belligerence and pride.

Everything almost came good in the end for Scotland with that searing break from Stafford McDowall and that finish out wide from Van der Merwe, but where was the damage done?

In their inability to be completely ruthless, in their difficulty dealing with England's power, in their travails in trying to get Van der Merwe as destructively involved in the second half as he was in the first.

England had no answer to him. They looked terrified when he ran at them, the first defender or two bouncing off him, the third hanging on for dear life in the hope that the cavalry was coming.

Van der Merwe was largely starved of ball in the second half. Scotland tried to go wide, but made poor decisions at times when a pass was on and at other times they were just smashed in the tackle.

Townsend said later that Scotland played better on Saturday than they did in some of the games his team has won against England. That's a stretch, but you could see his point. The memory of all those opportunities they opened up will haunt him.

Scotland had 59% territory and 58% possession. They scored three tries to England's one. They carried for 933m compared to England's 474m. They made nine line breaks to England's two. They beat 35 defenders to England's 10.

Stats, eh? None of them mattered. None of them offered comfort. Had England outclassed them they might find it easier to accept, but that wasn't the case.

The unavoidable sense is that, in part at least, the damage done to Scotland was largely done by their own hand - not punishing England when they had them on the ropes. A very bitter truth on a very rough day.

Watch as Scotland's Finn Russell misses a conversion in the final minute to hand England a 16-15 victory in the Six Nations.

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Wales: Murray; Rogers, Llewellyn, B Thomas, Mee; Anscombe, Tomos Williams; Smith, Dee, John, Rowlands, Jenkins, Morgan (capt), Reffell, Faletau.

Replacements: E Lloyd, G Thomas, H Thomas, Teddy Williams, Wainwright, R Williams, J Evans, Roberts.

Ireland: Osborne; Hansen, Ringrose, Henshaw, Lowe; S Prendergast, Gibson-Park; Porter, Sheehan (capt), Clarkson, J McCarthy, Beirne, O'Mahony, Van der Flier, Conan.

Replacements: G McCarthy, Boyle, Bealham, Ryan, Baird, Murray, Crowley, Aki.

Red-card: Ringrose 34

Referee: Christophe Ridley (Eng)

Assistant Referees: Nika Amashukeli (Geo) & Gianluca Gnecchi (Ita)

Television Match Official: Ian Tempest (Eng)

Foul Play Review Officer: Matteo Liperini (Ita)

The excellent Van der Merwe, whose surging runs and six tries have defined Scotland's supremacy in the fixture in recent years, gave England an unwelcome reminder of his talents inside five minutes.

After Ollie Sleightholme had kicked away possession to Blair Kinghorn, the powerhouse wing scorched outside Ollie Lawrence, drawing the England cover. Quick hands then released Tom Jordan down the line and the Bristol-bound centre slung a superb inside pass to put White in.

White celebrated the opening try long and loud in front of a silenced north stand, but the home team found a swift response.

They went straight down the other end and a spell of pressure and repeated short-range thrusts ended with wing Tommy Freeman plunging over the line, with the officials confident of a grounding that looked uncertain on television replays.

It was, however, a rare foray into Scotland territory.

The visitors headed to the tunnel having entered the opposition 22m eight times, with England only managing to get into the danger zone twice.

The pilfering of back-row twins Tom and Ben Curry and England's scrum supremacy, combined with some Scottish inaccuracy, kept the scoreline from having a similarly lop-sided look.

Jones added a try before the break, giving Scotland a 10-7 lead, as Kinghorn and Van der Merwe combined once more, finding angles, offloads and open field out wide.

Having been penned back for the majority of the match, England sprung forward thrillingly on the final play of the half as Lawrence rampaged through midfield and fed Marcus Smith.

With Freeman free on his inside, Smith couldn't find a pass and was snared by a covering Van der Merwe. On the next phase, Lawrence's ambitious offload landed over the advertising hoardings rather than in Sleightholme's hands.