The 21st century
Great Britain · born Sutton, London, 2001 · left-handed · Stuttgart champion 2024
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Grass title, Stuttgart 2024
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Best Wimbledon result, 2022, 2024 and 2025
7-6, 6-3
Win over Carlos Alcaraz, Queen's 2024
2018
Wimbledon boys' singles runner-up
Born in Sutton, London, on 22 December 2001, Draper is the son of Roger Draper, a former chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association. He reached the Wimbledon boys' final in 2018 and won his first ATP title on grass at Stuttgart in 2024, then took Vienna that October and his first Masters 1000 title at Indian Wells in 2025, beating Holger Rune 6-2, 6-2. He reached a career-high No. 4 in June 2025, but an injury to his left arm cut short that season and kept him out of the 2026 Australian Open. In 2026 he beat Novak Djokovic at Indian Wells, injured a knee in Barcelona and added Andy Murray to his coaching team. His 2026 grass season was a semi-final at Eastbourne, then withdrawal from Wimbledon on the eve of his first-round match.
| Wimbledon singles | Second round 2022, 2024 and 2025; first round 2021, lost to Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Missed 2023 with a shoulder injury; withdrew in 2026 before playing Taylor Fritz |
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| Wimbledon boys' singles | Runner-up 2018, lost to Tseng Chun-hsin 6-1, 6-7, 6-4 on Court One |
| Grass title | Stuttgart 2024, beat Matteo Berrettini 3-6, 7-6, 6-4 after saving two match points in the second-set tie-break |
| Queen's | Quarter-finals 2021, beating Jannik Sinner and Alexander Bublik before losing to Cameron Norrie; quarter-finals 2024, beating the defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 7-6, 6-3 before losing to Tommy Paul |
| Eastbourne | Semi-finals 2022 as a wildcard, lost to Maxime Cressy; semi-finals 2026, lost to Ugo Humbert in straight sets |
| Stuttgart | ||
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| 2024 | Men's singles | |
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"To win a set against Novak Djokovic on my Wimbledon debut is something I won't forget."
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Wimbledon 2018 · Court One
At 16, after a semi-final of four hours and 24 minutes against Nicolás MejÃa, Draper was trying to become the first British boys' champion since Stanley Matthews in 1962. He took the second set on a tie-break against the top seed, Tseng Chun-hsin, but lost the third 6-4, and Tseng finished the match with a second-serve ace.
Source: Sky SportsWimbledon 2021 · Centre Court
On his Wimbledon debut he drew the defending champion, Novak Djokovic, and won the first set 6-4, the first set Djokovic had dropped in a Wimbledon first round for 11 years. Djokovic won the next three. "I didn't want to give him too much respect," Draper said. "I wanted to win the match today."
Source: Shropshire StarStuttgart 2024
A shoulder injury had cost him the 2023 grass season and dropped him as low as No. 123. A year later he reached the Stuttgart final, saved two match points in the second-set tie-break against Matteo Berrettini and won 3-6, 7-6, 6-4 for his first ATP title. The result made him British No. 1 for the first time.
Source: ATP TourQueen's 2024
Days after his Stuttgart title he met Carlos Alcaraz, the defending champion at Queen's and at Wimbledon, and beat him 7-6, 6-3. "It was a really tough match," he said on court, before thanking the people around him: "There's no place I'd rather be right now [with] my family, my friends." Tommy Paul beat him in the quarter-finals.
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2026
Working with Andy Murray, he came back from a knee injury to reach the Eastbourne semi-finals, only his fifth tour event of the year. On the day before his first-round match against Taylor Fritz the arm injury flared again and he withdrew. "There have been a lot of painful moments in the last 12 months but this one is definitely the absolute worst," he said.
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