As the best tennis players in the world converged on the California desert for the Indian Wells Masters last year, Jack Draper was not among them. He was making significant progress and had won three ATP Challenger events early in the season, but was scrapping in the lower levels of the sport, still waiting to make the definitive step up.
This year marks Draper’s arrival at the top of tennis, his first full season on the ATP Tour, and the tests will keep on coming. On Saturday in Indian Wells he will take part in an all-British second-round battle against Dan Evans, the 24th seed.
