Former world number one Andy Murray has teased fellow countryman Jack Draper over his recent picture. The 23-year-old recently posted a picture of his blond hairstyle on his official Instagram account.
Former world number one Murray, who is often regarded as the greatest British player in the history of men’s tennis in the singles category after having won as many as three Grand Slam titles, in response to that, highlighted one white hair and made a teasing comment. “Not sure if you noticed but I think a bird has 💩 on your hair in that photo 🙏,” he wrote. In the picture, it can be seen that the youngster has been gearing up for the upcoming clay court season.
Draper has been going through a mixed campaign. The current world number seven had a difficult start to his campaign where at the Australian Open, he was knocked out after being forced to retire from the fourth round contest because of a fitness concern while facing the former world number one Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz.
He returned to the court at the Qatar Open where he went all the way to the final and lost to Russia’s Adrey Rublev with a score of 7-5, 5-7, 6-1. Draper then produced the best tennis of this season at the Indian Wells, where he lifted the ATP 1000 title after beating Denmark’s Holger Rune in the final in straight sets with a score of 6-2, 6-2. With that win, he became the second British player after Cameron Norrie. He lifted the title in 2021 after beating Nikoloz Basilashvili in the final with a score of 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. The celebrations for that victory, however, were short-lived as Draper’s outing at the next event — the Miami Open — proved to be a disastrous one as he lost to the Czech Republic’s Jakub Mensik in the round of 64 in straight sets with a score of 7-6, 7-6.