When thinking about his favorite moment in 2024 in December, Jacques Dripper You didn’t choose access to We are open The semi -finals, won the titles of the first and second ATP rounds, or hitting Carlos Carrez.
He chose the wake of his most disappointing defeat for this year, and the loss of qualified Jesper de Jong in French open in May.
“When I went home from Paris, I was everywhere I thought:” I need to get S-together, what should I do? I do not fulfill my potential. I am not the player I want to be. ”He told a small group of correspondents in a bar in western London before Christmas.
“When I look back this year, this is something that brings me the most satisfaction. The most joyful is working on certain situations and then turning into a different player.”
Dryber, 23, ranked 40th and has an identity crisis about his game. He was brought to the former scientist Wayne Ferrera to support his main coach James Troutman, and Ferrera wanted to use his huge frame with a length of 6 feet (193 cm) more. But after the disappointing stadium season, Derbar decided instead to tend to his other talents: soft, sports, and heavy hands that could explode through court or running over the shoulders of the opponent.
He said: “Wayne wanted to try to be brave.”
“I assume I need this, but at the same time, I needed to understand that this is not the player I am too. One of my main features that the player enjoys is my ability to move well for my sizes, and to be able to return this ball to court.
“Thus I won the matches when I was younger, when I was young.”
Driber and Ferrera separated after the herbal stadium season, and while Derbar took some Ferrera’s advice to the heart through the absence of a “single speech”, he embraced the natural diversity that he possessed and has erected tennis since then.
Last Sunday, DRIPRIBA Paribas Open won the Indian Wales. It is his first title from ATP MASTERS 1000 – RUNG Lower Slams Grand Slams directly – and transfer it to the top 10 ATP for the first time. The slow and exciting reward in the desert players in California who can mix their footage; Witness Alcaraz, who was astonished by Dryber in the semi -finals despite being on the ropes in the third group. The 21 -year -old Spanish player may be the most prominent player in the world and Indian Wells twice.
During the Indian Wales Final against Holgar Ron, Durber showed his mental strategy, focusing on his vision on his thumb in the parties’ changes. Because it is very open about discussing the mental side of the game-including anxiety in court-and its affliction with injuries, it is ignored by its forgetfulness and its details sometimes. In the California desert, it was in complete flowering.
Draper Flighting Forehand was just one element of his success in Indian Wells. (Clive Brunskill / Getty Images)
Draper’s Forehand is the most devastating stroke, but its back arrow is the most reliable. Like the southern tennis, Rafael Nadal, Derbar is a natural right -wing side that plays the left hand, so it finds natural stability on the back blow in hand.
“I think this really helps me, because in front of me was improving all the time,” he said at a press conference after beating Al -Karaz on Saturday. “Of course it is the front snapshot where I am not comfortable. It was always easy to hit with my eyes closed.”
Drber’s hardness on the back side is annoying to his opponents. Against most of the leftists, playing for the right ascending is an attempt to enter into a march through the court in which they struck in front of me into a back blow to their opponent, which is usually the weakest.
“I have no problem against any player with his front lines in a rear kick,” Dripper continued. “This is usually something where the players fight, but with myself, this is a great power.”
According to data from the innovations of the Data Tennisviz and tennis (TDI), we can see that over the past year, opponents won 42.8 percent of points upon arrival at the corresponding clips against Draper, compared to the average round of 45 percent. Last week in Indian Wales, this number was less for Derbar’s opponents, as it decreased by 41.7 percent – a significant decrease on average of one of the most important shots that were published regularly in tennis.
On the contrary, the front Draper’s was more destroyed than usual, especially against Ron in a unilateral final. When hitting it from the middle of the field, with the choice of going to the front of his opponent or a rear blow, Derbar Ron destroyed the foreground, and won 100 percent of the points behind that play.
Dripper worked with Troutman on his movement to stabilize the front, admitting that he used to the struggle when anyone went after that – as he did to the dirham on Sunday.
He told a small group of journalists in a video call: “Any pace has a problem.”
“I remember when I played the role of Carlos Alcaraz here two years ago, I felt that I could not hit the skin of the rice pudding. So I feel I have come a long way in it.
“I think much of it is about my situation, with my body. I have worked on this feeling a lot in the foreground and not raise. I still raise some front, but I feel that my commitment most of the time is to deal with the ball and feel that I am hurting from that shot rather than being just a ball from the average,”.
In that match against Al-Karaz, he lost 6-2, 2-0 with retirement. Things look completely different in the semi -finals.
Despite the development of DRIBR as a player, there is no weapon in his game greater than his service. This has evolved relatively late, since Dripper was only 5 feet 6 inches until a useful growth in the middle of adolescence was floated.
Speaking after his devastating service against Ron, Driber said: “It was really good and local.
In Indian Wales, Dreter improved his second points, which he won from 52 percent during the past year to 54 percent. Its accuracy was also used to calculate the effective effect of the courts at its speed, winning 78 percent of the points that stand by T on the Deuce side, and 83 percent on the advertisement; 40 and 39 percent of these offers went without return, respectively.
The introduction screen gave him the platform to play with more diversity that he was striving for, mixing his pace and reaching the network at various points. Against Ben Shelton in the quarter -finals last week, Derbar drew his body in one way or another to strike a shot that was flying towards his chest, fell, and returned to win this point.
Against Ron, Dripper offered some distinguished defense to go along with his devastating attack, and 43 percent of the points won the defense, for each TDI “stealing the result.” The average of the past 52 weeks is 35 percent. It was his rich mix of attack and defending options, instead of the brute force approach, which transferred him to the title.
Draper is one of the many ATP players who face how Alcaraz and World No. 1 Jannik Sinner to reshape tennisBut it appears to be in a better position to embrace this change than some of his peers in the classification. Players born in the 1990s, including World 2 Alexander Zverev, No. 4 Taylor Fritz and No. 6 Kasper Road publicly said they are feeling that they are not putting their situation to adapt to the huge beating and coverage of the court. Dryber studied them carefully and knew them well as well; Sinner is a friend and former spousal, while Draper was planning to spend the latest season with Alcaraz in Spain before hip injury interfered.
Derbar was ranked third with his results for 2025, and won 13 out of 15 games this year, including 10 of the last 11 years. He heads to Miami as one of the championship’s favorite candidates, then he has very few points to defend during the clay swing. But the biggest challenge is that Grand Slams- The largest championship in the world that brings coordination of five outstretched groups as Dryber has fought more in the past. However, his last shape makes him believe that he is on his way.
“I can compete constantly against the world’s top players. I feel completely affiliated,” he said.
(Alawite Image: Andy Abia / Desert of the Sun through Imagn photos)
