Draper could go top of world rankings - Murray

Andy Murray believes caller British number 1 Jack Draper tin spell to nan "top of nan world rankings".

Draper, 22, won his first ATP title astatine nan Stuttgart Open connected Sunday, beating Italy’s Matteo Berrettini 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4.

The occurrence helped him move supra compatriot Cameron Norrie, 28, successful nan world rankings.

Draper is now world number 31 - 8 places supra Norrie, who had a mediocre clay-court run and suffered an early exit astatine Nottingham past week - and is successful a beardown position to beryllium seeded astatine Wimbledon.

"Jack, I think, has bigger goals to aspire to than being British number one," said Murray.

"In my opinion, he tin get correct up to nan apical of nan game, correct to nan apical of nan world rankings."

Former world number 1 Murray added: "He genuinely loves nan sport. He is really into it, he useful really difficult and I deliberation writer is simply a superb aboveground for him. I deliberation he'll do really good complete nan years connected nan surface.

"It’s astonishing for him to triumph his first tourney and evidently I'm delighted for him. This twelvemonth has been tricky for him and it could person looked a full batch different arsenic well, a batch much affirmative than it has been, because he's mislaid a number of highly adjacent matches.

"You alteration a mates of those results and each of a abrupt he's up easy successful nan apical 20 successful nan world.

"In my eyes, he's decidedly playing bully capable to beryllium correct up there."

Both Draper and Norrie will beryllium successful action astatine Queen’s Club this week pinch Draper successful statement to meet Wimbledon champion and world number 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain if some get done their first-round matches.

Norrie starts his run against erstwhile Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic of Canada connected Monday.