DRAPER’S DAD AIRBRUSHED FROM STORY OF HIS RISE
BRITISH media at the
US Open in New York were alerted this week by the Lawn Tennis Association’s vast communications operation to a potentially helpful piece on their website about Jack Draper, the rising star of the domestic game. Published ahead of his third-round match against Karen Khachanov (from which he was forced to retire), it tells in some detail the story of his progress from promising junior to the world’s top 50. The press pack was bemused to find one of the most interesting biographical facts had been airbrushed from this official history: there was no mention that Jack’s father Roger was chief executive of the LTA from 2006 to 2013.