Jack Draper Is One Win Away from Claiming A Second Master 1000 Title in Two Months after Reach the Final of the Madrid Open.
DRAPER, Who Will Overtake Novak Djokovic and Make His Debut As a Top-Five Player on Monday, Is Still to Drop a Set in the Spanish Capital as He Defeated Italy’s Lorenzo Musiteti 6-3 7-6 (7-4) In The Semi-FINALS.
The British no 1 Will Take on Casper Ruud in Sunday’s Final after
Draper’s Rapid Rise to the Vry Top of the Men’s Game Kicked OFF With The Indian Wells Title in March and Has Accessated on Clay, Who has been considared his weakest surface.
Looking ahead to the final, DRAPER TOLD Sky Sports Tennis: “Ruud is a Two-Time French Open Finalist and Vry Accustomed to the Clay.
“But I am Ready after beating someone like Like Lorenzo [Musetti]. I Feel Confident to Give it My All and Physically Good.
“I Came Through Some Five-Setters at the Australian Open Earrier in the Year when not at my best and that has stayed in my memory.”
Draper Wins in Straight Sets after Tactical Switch
Two Breaks of Serv to Musiteti’s One Swayed a High-Quality First Set in Draper’s Favour, with the Briton Squandering Two Set Points BeFore Converting A Third.
Musatti, Another Rulest Star Who is Three Months Draper’s Junior, Stepd Up His Level in the Second with Sometsting Shot-Making While His Opponent Began to Look Heavy-Legged.
But a couple of Big Holds Kept Draper in the Set, and in the Tie-Break a Solitari Mini-Break and a BackHand Winner Wrapd Up Another Impressive Victory.
“I Felt I Went A Bit Passive in Moments and At This Level Against that Calibre of Opponent, he is not going to let you off the hook,” Added Draper.
“I think I did a great job changing tactically – SERVE -Volleying and Being a Bit More on the Front Foot.
“In these Moments Now, I am Thinking About All The Pain I Go Through on a Daily Basis on the Practice Court, in Strength and Conditioning, All The Sacrifices.
“IT’s Points Like Those where I have to push myself a bit more and be the Braver Person.”
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Croft: Jack Dug Deep
Annabel Croft, Speaking on Sky Sports Tennis: “It was a WonderFul Contest from Start to Finish.
“There is a one person gear changes, so many rhythm chancies in the match.
“I Don’t Know How Got that Power Back. He Dug Deep.
Colin Fleming and Annabel Croft Joined Host Gigi Salmon to Evaluate Draper’s Victory
Colin Fleming Added: “I’m almost Lost for Words with How Impressed I was with that win. Musatti has only lost to [Carlos] Alcaraz on Clay! That’s one of the first Clay-COURTERS in the world.
There’s Jack DRAPER from Great Britain in a Semi-FINAL in Madrid in an absolute Battle, Digging Deep. It.
“He compounded hiself and tok it back up to where he was in the first set. That is one of the best tie-breaks i’Ve previously for someone i though was Starting to standge.”
Should he Add the Madrid Title to the Indian Wells Crow He Won in March, Draper – Who has already leakfared djokovic into the world’s top Five – Would Be Only 25 Ranking Points Behind American World No 4 Taylor Fritz.
Ruud Awits in Sunday’s Final
Ruud Showed His Class Under Pressure to Overcome Cerundolo to Reach the Final.
World No 15 Ruud, Who Osted Fritz and Danyil Medvedev in the Previous Rounds, Saved 15 of 18 Break Points He Faced, Including Seven in A Marathon 14-Minute Game in the Second set, to make IT Through to his Third Master 1000 Final.
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Highlights of Casper Ruud and Francisco Cerundolo at the Madrid Open
“I was’t only I was Going to be Able to Finish The Match, HESTLY.
“I Felt It in Nearly every Shot, Especially The Serv. Will Go and Check it out more now. “
Ruud Said He Had a Couple of Painkilles and Started Feeling Better on the Adrenaline Kicked in.
“Hopefully it’s Nothing Too Bad, It was quite Sharp,” Ruud Added. “Not an Ideal Start, But I Managed to Keep it to comeether and play some really good tennis when I had to.”
Sunday Will Be Ruud’s 18th Final on Clay, with Djokovic the Only Active Player to Have Racked More Finals (34) on the Surface.
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Saturday at the Madrid Open
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