Chris Oddo| @thefanchild | Thursday, July 3, 2025
Jack Draper His four major draw appearances have not surpassed the second round in Wimbledon’s second round, and he’s first entered the top 5 players of this year’s Championship, with his shoulders on a country’s dream.
It’s a relatively strange superstar for a 23-year-old, but Drapper said expectations that are not related to today’s four-set losses are important. Marin Cilic.
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“It’s not stress, it’s not anything. I’m not good enough today. I lost to a better player,” he said.
Draper, who owns a grass champion, entered the grass with a lifetime record of 19-8 today, with some of his results turning his head on the grass. Last year, he won the Stuttgart championship and then defeated Carlos Alcaraz at the Queen’s Club. This year, despite dealing with tonsillitis, he reached the semifinals in Queens.
But people have taken the lead in his pasture strength, he said.
“I think it’s a bit misunderstanding, just because I’m a 6’4″ left-handed, I must be incredible on the grass,” Draper said. I think I was not doing well before. I never went through the second round.
“Obviously, I’m very determined to change it and make it a great surface for me. I feel like this is the way every surface is.
Draper said he was disappointed from the front to the back grass season this year. He never really found his groove on the surface. He often mentions the fact that he feels it is difficult for him to handle the pace at the forehand, which leads him to give up on real estate at the rally.
“I’m honestly disappointed with the way I played this year,” Draper said. “I don’t feel very good about the Queen. I don’t know how I made the semifinals there and gave myself the chance to the finals.” This year for me, I’m really struggling on the grass. I felt great on tough clay. My game, I don’t feel like there are many holes, and once I come to the grass I feel big. So, it’s just something I have to keep in mind, how I’m going to grow my own game in the long term next year. ”
Finally, Draper spent some time praising Cilic, 36, who showed off his retro form and smashed 53 winners on the day.
“He’s been ten for years. He’s been a guy who just the ultimate pro player who can play incredible,” Draper said of Cialic. “I’m not going to play a lot of people on the tour, and I feel like they’ve totally bullied me and took the racket out of my hands.”
