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Jack Draper has moved up 224 places to 41st successful the satellite rankings successful 2022Jack Draper's tally astatine the Next Gen ATP Finals successful Milan ended successful the semi-finals pursuing a four-set decision to the United States' Brandon Nakashima.
Third effect Draper, 20, mislaid 4-3 (8-6) 1-4 4-2 4-3 (7-5) to past season's beaten semi-finalist successful the ATP Tour's tourney for its champion young players.
A choky semi-final hinged connected tie-breaks successful the archetypal and 4th games.
The Czech Republic's Jiri Lehecka bushed Switzerland's Dominic Stricker 4-1 4-3 (7-4) 2-4 4-1 successful the different semi-final.
World fig 41 Draper has enjoyed a stunning breakthrough campaign, starting the twelvemonth ranked 265th but forcing his mode into the season-ending event, which acts arsenic a signpost to the game's up-and-coming young talents.
The Sutton-born subordinate had produced different good show to scope the semi-finals successful Milan, winning 2 of his 3 radical games including a round-robin decider against Italian apical effect and location favourite Lorenzo Musetti.
Spain's Carlos Alcaraz, the US Open champion and existent satellite fig one, won the rubric successful 2020, with the likes of Jannik Sinner and Stefanos Tsitsipas victorious successful erstwhile years.
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