{"id":205237,"date":"2025-10-16T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205237\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:21:09","slug":"jack-draper-british-number-one-and-coach-james-trotman-end-partnership-after-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205237\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper: British number one and coach James Trotman end partnership after four years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Draper will no longer work with the man who coached him to the Indian Wells title as James Trotman wants to prioritise time with his family.<\/p>\n

The British number one has already hired Jamie Delgado as his head coach for next season<\/a> but had been hoping there would also be a role for the man with whom he has enjoyed much success over the past four years.<\/p>\n

Trotman says it has become increasingly difficult to “juggle” Draper’s career with his own family life.<\/p>\n

“I’ve made the decision that four years has been a great run,” Trotman told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it, but it was getting increasingly difficult for me juggling the demands Jack deserves as the player that he is – and also being a father and a husband.<\/p>\n

“I need to start to get those energy levels back up and have a little bit more normality – watch my son play football on a Sunday, go on some family holidays, have a bit more of a normal life.”<\/p>\n

Trotman says he first spoke to Draper about his future after Wimbledon, having felt mentally and physically tired over the previous year.<\/p>\n

The pair have been working together this week, with 23-year-old Draper returning to the practice court after resting the left arm injury that ended his season early.<\/p>\n

If the bruising in his arm heals as expected, Trotman will head to San Diego for some warm weather training with Draper and Delgado at the end of November.<\/p>\n

But after that, he will return to his job as an LTA men’s national coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Draper will no longer work with the man who coached him to the Indian Wells title as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-205237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}