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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nA bone bruise in his left arm followed by an injury to a tendon in his right knee pushed the former World No.4 to the sidelines and knocked him out of the Top 100, but he appears to be trending in the right direction again this week in Eastbourne.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, he powered into the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-4 win over compatriot Jack Pinnington Jones to set up a last-eight clash with Canada\u2019s Gabriel Diallo.<\/p>\n
After starting the week at No.160, Draper is already up to No.143.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy confidence levels were below the floor a couple weeks ago,\u201d the 24-year-old admitted after Wednesday\u2019s win.<\/p>\n
Draper was broken only once in 11 service games, for 5-5 in the opening set, but recovered immediately to claim the final two games. He broke early in the second set and never faced a break point as he raced to victory in one hour and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
More confidence gained for the southpaw, who improves to 7-4 on the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t played for a long time. I didn\u2019t play Queen\u2019s because I just wasn\u2019t ready, so to come here and be on court competing and playing at a high level very quickly, I\u2019m very grateful.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was on a great trajectory last year,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing at a career-high ranking of No.4 and then having my body stop me in my tracks, not being able to play, the last year has been really difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Draper hits his stride quickly, he could find himself significantly higher in the rankings after Wimbledon. He is defending just second-round points at the Championships.<\/p>\n
It would be easy to look ahead, but Draper is happy to stay focused on the present. With Andy Murray in his coaching box, he hopes to continue building momentum as he takes things day by day in Eastbourne.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now it\u2019s just about coming out each day, being consistent with my practice, trying to get as many matches as I can to get my confidence back to where I need to be and hopefully rising up the rankings once again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two wins in three days feels like a dream for Jack Draper, especially considering where he has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-758889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}