Draper shows class and fight to win biggest title yet

Jack Draper won the biggest rubric of his vocation astatine the Erste Bank Open successful Vienna arsenic the British fig one's breakout play reached adjacent greater heights.

Draper, 22, produced an outstanding level to bushed Russia's Karen Khachanov 6-4 7-5 successful the last of the ATP 500 event.

The triumph was not each plain sailing, however.

Draper watched a 4-0 pb vanish successful the 2nd acceptable arsenic Khachanov recovered to pb 5-4, but the Briton showed resilience to interruption again for 6-5 and gain the accidental to service retired the victory.

He had to spot disconnected 2 interruption points successful the 12th game, showing his joyousness and alleviation by falling to his backmost connected the tribunal erstwhile Khachanov enactment a lob wide connected title point.

It is the 2nd tour-level rubric of the left-hander's career, having won an ATP 250 successful Stuttgart earlier this year.

Draper, who reached his maiden Grand Slam semi-final astatine the US Open past month, volition emergence to a career-high ranking of 15th successful the satellite connected Monday.

This clip past year, Draper sat conscionable wrong the apical 100 arsenic his comeback from a enarthrosis wounded continued.

Staying acceptable and becoming much robust has been the cardinal to Draper's surge, allowing his endowment to flourish.