Jack Draper 'potentially has no limits' albeit with one caveat says Patrick Mouratoglou

After his heroics at the Vienna Open, Jack Draper has reached the top 15 and will only seemingly go higher. After years of injury hell, he seems to be on his way. But Patrick Mouratoglou believes he has the tools to go all the way with one caveat to that.

Being his injury record but he said that he has first hand experience with Draper through UTS and so he can spot where he has improved and he has definitely done so in the past year.

"I think he's a great player. Last year when he won Ultimate Tennis Showdown [UTS], I think he played incredible tennis the whole three days," said Mouratoglou to Sky Sports.

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"I feel that now he's much more mature in terms of his game, his game plan, his game style. Everything looks much more mature. And when you see him win in Vienna, you don't feel he plays out of his mind. It's his level. So I think he improved a lot this year.

"I think the big challenge for him now is to stay injury-free because he's been injured a lot for someone so young.

"If he manages to stay injury-free then I think he's definitely a top-10 player and a player that has huge weapons and potentially has no limits."

He detailed the aspects of his games that are a lot better and said that with tennis being open in terms of who will join Alcaraz and Sinner, players like Draper will believe.

"I feel that his backhand is much better," said Mouratoglou. "Before, his backhand was not hurting the opponent much. I saw him play in Vienna, and I thought he's taking the ball much earlier with the backhand, and he can hit the ball full, taking the ball early.

"So he can hurt players a lot with his backhand that is quite flat. And I feel he has a clear game plan.

"His game plan, the way he should play, his style is very, very clear now, which was not that obvious before.

"He's very solid and he's very disciplined in what he's doing. But I think that's a major improvement he's made this year."

"I think there is a lot of competition at the moment. You have two guys who are way above the others, Sinner and Alcaraz. But I think there is also a new generation coming up with a lot of guys that have big potential. Jack is one of them," Mouratoglou said. "He really believes in himself, which I think is great.

"We've been used to this generation of Rafa [Nadal], Roger [Federer], Novak [Djokovic]. The young generations that came up never thought they could make it because those three guys, in their mind, were unbeatable.

"But I feel that Alcaraz and Sinner are young like them, so they think, 'why not us?'

"There is really a big, big generation in terms of players that can make it to the top. And again, Jack is one of them, but the competition is tough."

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