Jack Draper vows to ‘shake up’ two players after clinching ATP title in Vienna

British No.1 tennis prima Jack Draper has vowed to ‘shake up’ the likes of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz aft lifting the Vienna Open trophy.

The 22-year-old, who has already drawn comparisons to British tennis fable Andy Murray, clinched the 2nd ATP Tour rubric of his vocation connected Sunday.

Draper has enjoyed a superb 2024 season and produced his top Grand Slam show to day astatine the US Open, with an awesome tally to the semi-finals.

The satellite No.15 is acold from being done there, though, and wants to instrumentality his crippled to the adjacent level to rival satellite No.1 Sinner and satellite No.2 Alcaraz.

Sinner and Alcaraz person started dominating connected the ATP Tour with the ‘Big Three’ epoch of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer yet coming to an end.

Federer retired successful 2022, Nadal is acceptable to bent up his racket successful November and portion Djokovic is continuing for now, helium is not expected to person agelong near successful the sport.

Draper has firmly got his eyes connected Sinner and Alcaraz arsenic the Briton said successful his post-match property conference: ‘I’ll spell again for adjacent twelvemonth with adjacent bigger motivation.

‘[I want] to truly shingle up those guys astatine the apical of the crippled – the likes of Sinner and Alcaraz.

‘If I tin support connected improving physically and support connected getting much and much acquisition astatine this higher level against apical players past I’m going to springiness myself a changeable to hopefully beryllium competing with those guys. But there’s a batch of enactment to do.’

Alcaraz registered an singular Channel Slam this year, lifting the French Open trophy connected clay earlier walking distant with the Wimbledon rubric connected grass.

Sinner, meanwhile, tasted glory astatine the different 2 large tournaments, triumphing astatine the Australian Open and US Open.

Draper has played 3 ATP Tour matches against Alcaraz to date, losing the archetypal 2 earlier beating the Spaniard astatine Queen’s Club this summer.

Against Sinner, Draper has won erstwhile and mislaid once, with the Italian coming retired connected apical successful their astir caller brushwood successful the past 4 astatine Flushing Meadows.

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