I'M ALRIGHT JACK WITH BEING NO.1

JACK DRAPER is ready to wear the crown as Britain's No.1 after Andy Murray's retirement but he won't spend Christmas stressing about it.

- MIKE WALTERS

After celebrating his 23rd birthday on Sunday, Draper heads to Australia next week to prepare for the first Grand Slam of 2025, with his career path steeply on an upward curve after beginning this year ranked No.62 in the world and ending it in the top 15.

He was surprised by Murray's return to the sport as 24-times Slam winner Novak Djokovic's coach after the pair born just a week apart spent a lifetime trying to beat each other.

But down by the riverside, on a Memory Walk for the Alzheimer's Society to honour his grandmother, Draper took it all in his stride.