Jack Draper reveals Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu inspiration ahead of Queen's win over Taylor Fritz

Jack Draper has revealed Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu are two of his biggest inspirations. Draper, 20, has enjoyed a strong start to the season with four ATP Challenger titles and two match wins at ATP Masters events in Miami and Madrid. He also pushed world No.

8 Andrey Rublev close in the Spanish capital and beat world No. 14 Taylor Fritz in the first round at the cinch Championships at Queen’s this week. Ad/> His success has pushed him up to fifth in the ATP Race to Milan, with the top eight 21-and-under players qualifying for the end-of-season finals event.

WTA NottinghamRaducanu does not get 'enough credit' and has 'great future', says Sakkari09/06/2022 AT 07:31 Alcaraz, 19, won the tournament last year and Draper says the Spaniard, now ranked No. 7 in the world, is setting the “benchmark”. “Alcaraz is very special.

I see him as a benchmark kind of player,” he told the ATP Tour before his victory over Fritz. “That is who I am judging myself against. His standards, his work rate and the way he plays.

Watching someone like that you can learn a lot and I hope one day I will be competing for big titles against him. Draper shocks Fritz in straight sets at Queen's Murray out of Queen's due to abdominal injury “I know about the race, but I haven’t paid too much attention to it, because even though I am high up now, there are players who are in the top 50 and top 100 who have access to ATP Tour events where points are higher. “I am not getting my hopes up because there are a lot of extremely good young players coming through.” Draper caught the eye last summer when he took a set off Novak Djokovic in the first round at Wimbledon, having beaten Jannik Sinner and Alexander Bublik at Queen’s.