Jack Draper has given an update on his physical condition after reaching the semi-finals at the Eastbourne Open to continue his strong comeback to the tour.<\/p>\n
The former world No 4 downed 91st-ranked Gabriel Diallo 6-1, 6-4 in the quarter-finals at the ATP 250 grass-court tournament on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Draper<\/a> impressively broke the big-serving Canadian four times as he earned his third successive straight-set victory in Eastbourne.<\/p>\n The Brit, who defeated Marcos Giron and Jack Pinnington Jones in his first two matches, had not played for over two months before his appearance this week.<\/p>\n Having started the week as the world No 160, Draper has soared 29 places to 131st in the Live ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n In his on-court interview, Draper said:\u00a0\u201cIt feels amazing. I love this tournament. I came here four years ago and I haven\u2019t been back since.<\/p>\n \u201cI missed Queen\u2019s last week and maybe I wouldn\u2019t have played here [if I had played Queen\u2019s], but I\u2019m incredibly happy to be here.<\/p>\n Jack Draper \u2018worries\u2019 John Lloyd despite being \u2018capable of winning a Grand Slam\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Jack Draper gets candid advice from a former British No 1 over serving concerns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTo get some matches under my belt is really important and I\u2019m really happy to get some wins under my belt. I\u2019m really proud of my performance today, I thought it was a strong performance against a tough player.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the first few shots were really important. It\u2019s not easy looking down the net \u2013 I think I\u2019m tall and he\u2019s just towering over me. It\u2019s a difficult one, especially on the grass, but I think I returned really well and I instilled a lot of doubt in the return games. I returned extremely well.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a better performance today. Each performance has gone that way so I\u2019m looking forward to tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked how his body is holding up, Draper replied: \u201cGood. I feel great. Obviously been a difficult year with a lot of injury setback, but I\u2019m gaining more confidence in my body. Winning helps, obviously.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not sure how good of an idea it is to wear all black. I was definitely feeling it yesterday, but it\u2019s the only kit I\u2019ve got with me, so I hope it\u2019s not hot again tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n The 24-year-old will take on world No 30 Ugo Humbert in the semi-finals in Eastbourne on Friday.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Jannik Sinner\u2019s 17-word response to question he \u2018cannot answer\u2019 speaks volumes about his mentality<\/a> The post Jack Draper reveals \u2018how his body is holding up\u2019 amid impressive Eastbourne comeback<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jack Draper has given an update on his physical condition after reaching the semi-finals at the Eastbourne Open to continue his strong comeback to the tour. The former world No 4 downed 91st-ranked Gabriel Diallo 6-1, 6-4 in the quarter-finals at the ATP 250 grass-court tournament on Thursday. Draper impressively broke the big-serving Canadian four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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