Jack Draper’s game and personality are very different from Andy Murray’s, but he’s not wasting time following in his footsteps
On the 22-year-old Brit’s breakout semifinal run at the US Open.
NEW YORK—Should American tennis fans be jealous of their counterparts in…Great Britain?
Historically, this has rarely, if ever, been the case. Tennis lovers in the U.S., for example, have never had to endure a 77-year drought between male champions at their native Grand Slam, the way the Brits did at Wimbledon from 1936 to 2013.
But as we all know only too well by now, the U.S. men’s game is in a bit of a home-Slam dry spell of its own right now. Twenty-one years have passed since Andy Roddick became the last American man to win the US Open. With Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe facing off in one semifinal on Friday, there’s a chance that run of futility might end this year. But there’s also a chance that a 22-year-old Englishman with an action hero name could stroll in from out of nowhere and spoil the party.
