MATCH POINT: Jack Draper scores 100th career win with Rome victory over Vit Kopriva

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Jack Draper has reached a lot of career milestones over the last two months—first Masters 1000 title, Top 10 debut, Top 5 debut—and in Rome on Sunday, he dropped another one.

The 23-year-old Brit defeated Czech qualifier Vit Kopriva in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, for the 100th tour-level win of his career.

He’s just the ninth man born in the 2000s to reach that milestone, and among all of them, he has the third-best career winning percentage with .641 (100-56), trailing only Carlos Alcaraz at .793 (234-61) and Jannik Sinner at .772 (271-80).

MEN BORN IN 2000s WITH 100+ CAREER WINS (tour-level):

  • 271: Jannik Sinner [born in 2001]
  • 234: Carlos Alcaraz [born in 2003] (plays tonight)
  • 232: Felix Auger-Aliassime [born in 2000]
  • 156: Holger Rune [born in 2003]
  • 150: Lorenzo Musetti [born in 2002]
  • 134: Sebastian Korda [born in 2000]
  • 109: Brandon Nakashima [born in 2001]
  • 104: Sebastian Baez [born in 2000]
  • 100: Jack Draper [born in 2001]
Draper has put together an incredible 47-15 record since the start of the grass-court season last year.

Draper has put together an incredible 47-15 record since the start of the grass-court season last year.

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And there’s more: Draper has earned almost half of those 100 career tour-level wins—47—in the last 11 months alone.

Going into the grass-court season last year he had a 53-41 career record, but he's put together an incredible 47-15 run since then, highlighed by winning his first three ATP titles (at Stuttgart and Vienna last year and Indian Wells this year), his first Grand Slam semifinal (US Open) and another Masters 1000 final (Madrid).

Up next for the No. 5-seeded Draper will be an all-lefty battle with Corentin Moutet, after the unseeded Frenchman rallied from 3-1 down in the third set tie-break to oust No. 9-seeded Holger Rune in a three-hour-and-44-minute marathon, 7-5, 5-7, 7-6 (4). It was his first win in 13 career attempts against Top 10 players.

Draper and Moutet will be playing each other for the first time.