Jack Draper dispatches Taylor Fritz 7-5 6-4 in the 4th round in Indian Wells on Wednesday. Draper will fight against Ben Shelton in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 18 minutes. This will be his best result in this competition. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 4th round in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Draper added to his prize money $ 91,750 after winning this match. He has already won $ 202,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Jack will add $ 152,850 to his earnings to get in total $ 354,850 in total.
Highlights Jack Draper vs. Taylor Fritz BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Draper’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:18
At the end of the match, the Brit scored 61 points vs. Taylor’s 53.
Draper
Draper served extremely well to win 91% of the points (32/35) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 45% points (10/22) on his second serve. Draper was pretty focused in converting 75% of the break points that he conquered (3/4).
Fritz
On the other side, Fritz was exceptional in converting the only break point that he converted. Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Draper and Fritz is 3-2 for Jack.
Draw and next match H2H: Jack Draper vs. Ben Shelton – stats
Draper will take on Shelton in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Jack Draper and Ben Shelton since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Jack clinched in the 11th game (6-5) prior to ultimately winning the set (7-5).
Fritz was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 4-5 to 7-5.
Jack converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 11th (5-5 15-40) and the 13th game (7-4 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Brit didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 66 points. Jack won 10 more points than Fritz (38-28). The Brit was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (24-4). on the other side of the court, Fritz conceded 14 points on serve (24-14).
Draper conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Taylor Fritz in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Jack to win the set as the American found the way to break back in the 8th (3-5) game.
Jack was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (2-0 30-40). In addition on the other side, Taylor was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 8th game (2-5 15-40).
They contested 48 points. It’s worth to point out that, Jack won this set even if he scored less points 2 than Fritz (23-25). Draper conceded 11 points on serve (18-11). On the losing side, Fritz conceded 5 points on serve (14-5).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Ben SheltonShelton – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (7-66 6-1)
- Jack DraperDraper – Taylor FritzFritz (7-5 6-4)
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (7-5 6-3)
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-1 6-1)
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Tommy PaulPaul (6-4 6-0)
- Arthur FilsFils – Marcos GironGiron (6-2 2-6 6-3)
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (7-64 6-1)
- Holger RuneRune – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-4 6-4)
Upcoming matches
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- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (0-1) – H2H details and stats
