After beating Djokovic, Norrie said Draper had sent him a text message with a reminder that he was still in the top spot, although the next day the positions were reversed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t look at the rankings for a very long time,\u201d Draper said, adding: \u201cIn press, after I played Novak, they said \u2018you\u2019re still going to be British No 1\u2019, and that was the first time I thought about it. So I messaged him [Norrie] and said, \u2018I\u2019m still holding on to it for a little bit longer\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not like a competition, I\u2019m really happy to see Cam back playing good tennis and playing at a great level, which I think he\u2019s doing, and I think it\u2019s really healthy to have a bit of that, pushing each other to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The frenetic nature of a tennis tour, which includes almost 11 months on the road, can mean there is little time to reflect on things. For Draper, the opportunity to think back to the milestone win over Djokovic, a player he has admired since he was a child and refers to as \u201cthe best of all time\u201d, came on a plane.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve played against Andy [Murray], Rafa [Nadal], Novak, these were three of the big four, the ones I was looking up to, the ones I was watching since I was young,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the flight over here [to Miami], it was the first time I thought about it and to have that achievement is obviously something that I\u2019ll always be immensely proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After beating Djokovic, Norrie said Draper had sent him a text message with a reminder that he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[7258,217,101,5438,118,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-481742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-jack-draper","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481742","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=481742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}