- Jack Draper made his anticipated return from the retirement of the Australian Open
- The British player beat Alexei Popyrin to reach the second round of Qatar Open
The return of Jack Draper of an injury had a winning beginning in Doha while beating Alexei Popyrin 6-2, 7-6.
Tendinitis in the hip of the 23 -year -old exploded in the low season and forced him to retire from his fourth round match against Carlos Alcaraz at the Australian Open.
We had not seen it since then, since he gave the articulation time to recover, but here in the Middle East there seemed to be problems, or with his body or his game.
His ballido was much better than in any of his victories in the Australian Open, when he fought against pain and lack of matches to win three five sets in a row before his body yielded.
Draper played two Australians in a row in Melbourne and here there was another, but the atmosphere was considerably more subjected to a scarcely populated court. The next is another man below, the chris o'connell qualifier. I win that, as he should, and the probable third round opponent is Novak Djokovic, in what would be his first meeting since Draper removed the great Serbian on the central court when he was a teenager.
Taking into account that he had not played for a month, this was a good performance of the world No16, playing in Qatar as seed NO8. The synthesis of aggressive batting and defensive resolution was a reminiscence of his career to the semifinals of the United States Open last year.

Jack Draper has made his highly anticipated return of an injury at the Qatar Open on Monday

The British sensation has confident the Australian player Alexei Popyrin 6-2, 7-6

Draper is ready to face another Australian, Chris O'Connell, and could see Novak Djokovic as his third round opponent
He also used the drop in generously, forcing the great Australian to push forward.
Popyrin double failure to go 3-2 and Draper hit an orthopedic device of brilliant shots of the setback to break again.
It served what was almost a perfect set with three consecutive murders. The second set was much closer and Draper had to save an adjustment point with a reverse winner. But he played a solid tiebreaker to pass.
Draper has his reserve training team here this week. While coach James Trottman and Physio Will Herbert receive a break, Alex Ward and Jonny Binding are completing.