Jack Draper ‘not out of the woods’ as British star makes damage comeback

Injuries have been a relentless in Draper’s profession as far as he retired injured from 4 matches in 2021 – together with his ATP Tour debut on the Miami Open. Things appeared up final season when Draper received three successive Challenger titles, broke into the world’s high 100 and high 50, and got here near defeating world No 1 Carlos Alcaraz in Basel.

The issues had been again this 12 months, nonetheless, as he additionally suffered from cramps towards Rafael Nadal on the Australian Open and retired from his round-of-16 match towards Alcaraz in Indian Wells. Now, Draper is solely centered on staying injury-free.

“It is about staying consistently on the court,” the British No 5 mentioned. “I have only played six to seven tournaments this year. It has been a real challenge just to get the fitness right and stay on the tennis court. My number one goal is to stay injury free as I know my tennis is good enough when I stay on court to do well.”