Jack Draper

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jack Draper

Oscariyan · Strong Club Player

Amazing jack! All that hard work paying off and more to come! :)

Priesty · Challenger level

Just wanted to give folks a heads up. There is a book out there on Amazon - "Jack Draper - the Meteoric Rise of Britain's Tennis Prodigy and His Journey to Grand Slam Glory". Seriously don't waste your hard earned money. It's 61 pages long, has no photos or direct quotes from Jack and contains numerous factual inaccuracies eg saying that Jack's first coach was his father "Mark". who is described as a former professional footballer but later referred to as a former tennis professional! It also talks of Jack's first ATP title being the Eastbourne event and later tells us how he beat Medvedev to reach the semis of the 2025 Australian Open and a year later beat Rublev, Djokovic and Medvedev to win the 2026 event!

Luckily I'm in time to be able to return it and use the money for something else.

-- Edited by Priesty on Thursday 3rd of October 2024 08:45:34 AM

Tanaqui · Club Coach

Priesty wrote:
Just wanted to give folks a heads up. There is a book out there on Amazon - "Jack Draper - the Meteoric Rise of Britain's Tennis Prodigy and His Journey to Grand Slam Glory". Seriously don't waste your hard earned money. It's 61 pages long, has no photos or direct quotes from Jack and contains numerous factual inaccuracies eg saying that Jack's first coach was his father "Mark". who is described as a former professional football but later referred to as a former tennis professional! It also talks of Jack's first ATP title being the Eastbourne event and later tells us how he beat Medvedev to reach the semis of the 2025 Australian Open and a year later beat Rublev, Djokovic and Medvedev to win the 2026 event!

Luckily I'm in time to be able to return it and use the money for something else.

Sounds very much like someone asked ChatGPT to "write a biography of tennis player Jack Draper" with all those "hallucinations" about his titles. cry

Edited to add: I'm glad you got your money back.

-- Edited by Tanaqui on Thursday 3rd of October 2024 06:52:33 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

There feels there should be someone you should be able to report the err author to. That's just taking the proverbial.

Tanaqui · Club Coach

indiana wrote:
There feels there should be someone you should be able to report the err author to. That's just taking the proverbial.

There's a "report an issue with this product" link on Amazon underneath the product description at the top of the page.

Hopefully, Amazon will investigate and agree it's a book that shouldn't be for sale, then close the "author's" Kindle Direct Publishing account and (I think) add the book to the system that (semi-automativally) checks new books when they're uploaded (so the "author" can't just create a new account and upload the book again).

the addict · Tennis legend

Glad to see the negative review ! I'm sure people would be tempted to buy this so anything negative will help deter them.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The same author has similar books out for Coco and Medvedev as well as a host of non tennis ones. Prolific writer!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
The same author has similar books out for Coco and Medvedev as well as a host of non tennis ones. Prolific writer!

All available through Amazon!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Interestingly, Waterstones carry one of his other books

www.waterstones.com/book/julio-rodriguez/william-m-martin/9798333898579

9vicman · Satellite level

Tanaqui wrote:
indiana wrote:
There feels there should be someone you should be able to report the err author to. That's just taking the proverbial.
There's a "report an issue with this product" link on Amazon underneath the product description at the top of the page.
Hopefully, Amazon will investigate and agree it's a book that shouldn't be for sale, then close the "author's" Kindle Direct Publishing account and (I think) add the book to the system that (semi-automativally) checks new books when they're uploaded (so the "author" can't just create a new account and upload the book again).

Interesting that it's recommended reading age 7-18 so maybe that's where you went wrong!

I have found no less than eight (!) Draper biographies on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=jack+draper+biography&crid=EW0EK0I6XCMB&sprefix=jack+draper+biography%2Caps%2C138&ref=nb_sb_noss

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Given the 2026 AO prediction, Ive just put a tenner on at jacks current odds. Will pay out nicely it seems!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jack won the ATP500 title in Vienna, beating Karen Khachanov in the final, 6-4 7-5

And, as of 28th October 2024, is now a top-15 player

WR 15 (+3)

Dannythomas · Lower Club Player

Great accomplishment to reach top 15 ( and US Open semi) at the age of 22 . And he has such a lot of upside and weapons in his game.

GBJ · Club Coach

It's fun to see Jack still technically in with a shout at reaching the tour finals going into Paris! (See live-tennis.eu/en/atp-race He's the lowest one without a cross next to his name). He was the lowest ranked player still in with a shot last week and only kept his hopes alive by winning the title I think. Looking at the numbers he'd probably need to win Paris and hope others around 8th place lose very early so super unlikely and he'd be pretty spent already when he got there if he made it but I guess he's in form at least. Not checked his draw for Paris yet as I post either.