{"id":236717,"date":"2025-07-04T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236717\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:28:13","slug":"john-mcenroe-criticises-jack-draper-as-he-exits-wimbledon-and-issues-stern-warning-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236717\/","title":{"rendered":"John McEnroe criticises Jack Draper as he exits Wimbledon and issues stern warning to him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jack Draper has become the latest seed to go crashing out of Wimbledon, falling in the second round to Marin Cilic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Draper was backed to go far at Wimbledon<\/a>, but he couldn\u2019t overcome veteran Cilic, who is ranked 83rd in the world.<\/p>\n

British number one Draper<\/a> was the fourth seed at Wimbledon<\/a>, while his latest opponent managed to reach the final of the Grand Slam in 2017.<\/p>\n

And it was the 36-year-old Croatian who beat the 23-year-old Briton, winning their meeting 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n

After his shock loss, the latter has now failed to reach the third round of Wimbledon in all four of his appearances at the All England Club.<\/p>\n

\"JackPhoto by Visionhaus\/Getty ImagesJack Draper criticised by John McEnroe after Wimbledon exit<\/p>\n

And ATP<\/a> number four Draper has now come under the microscope of tennis legend John McEnroe<\/a> following his shock defeat.<\/p>\n

The American said on BBC<\/a>: \u201cHe has done great. He has got to number four in the world. If I was looking from a distance at Jack I was like why is he standing so far back all the time?<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially on hard courts, even on clay. Is he quick enough to cover? Is that what he wants to do? To wear people down that way?<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Marin Cilic sends message to the Wimbledon crowd immediately after knocking Jack Draper out of the tournament<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cForehand has gotten way bigger but to me at Wimbledon you have to cut off those angles. So for me Jack needs to look at what [Taylor] Fritz did those first couple of rounds against two of the biggest serves I have seen. He is standing at the baseline on 150mph serves.<\/p>\n

\u201cJack Draper first round is standing 10 feet behind the baseline on his second serve! I don\u2019t think in the long run that is the way he wants to play at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also think he is a big, strapping, fit guy. He has skills at net. He has this lefty serve, get into net more.
\u201cServe and volley more often.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I sound like a dinosaur but I think it could be really effective even if he did it a third of the time, not a tenth of the time.<\/p>\n

\"MarinPhoto by Hannah Peters\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be interesting to see if he changes that on the hard courts because I think it caught up with him. Let\u2019s take Daniil Medvedev, he is the guy who started that whole thing, standing way back even on grass and hard courts and I think it is catching up to him mentally and physically.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are winning 6-3, 6-3. How much more was [Aleksandar] Vukic running than [Jannik] Sinner just now? How much did [Novak] Djokovic make poor Dan Evans run today? He was running side to side.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedvedev was running more than guys he was beating three and three. At some point that catches up to you. I think that will happen with Jack if he is not careful.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has to be aware of that. He has enough overall ability but he has to mix it up more and accept that and actually embrace it. I believe he can and indeed he will.\u201d<\/p>\n

What John McEnroe noticed about Jack Draper early on before Wimbledon loss to Marin Cilic<\/p>\n

Draper was under pressure to perform at Wimbledon<\/a> from the very start, and his exit will leave many home fans very disappointed.<\/p>\n

The player himself will also be very disappointed after coming out on the wrong end of the two-hour, 39-minute battle on Court 1.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> John McEnroe says what he thought was \u2018very unusual\u2019 about Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s first round performance at Wimbledon<\/a><\/p>\n

Analysing the upset further, tennis icon McEnroe said: \u201cIt looked to me early on, I was not watching up close and personal, but Jack looked tight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not surprised he was tight because a lot of expectations, including from myself, that he could actually challenge and contend for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe he thought he could actually do it. That was putting pressure on himself, obviously. And Cilic came to play, he has got a big game!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cMarin is 36 now but his body you have to think is like 40 because he\u2019s had issues. But he didn\u2019t look that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing which surprised me is that, he has always had the groundstrokes in a big game, but his court coverage was starting to slip a little bit as time went on.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you look at Novak for example and it has to inspire guys like Cilic to think I\u2019m not Novak Djokovic but maybe I can get back to where I was. I am trying to remember the last time I saw Cilic play this well. It\u2019s been a while, let me tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n\nResult<\/strong><\/td>\nYear<\/strong><\/td>\nTournament<\/strong><\/td>\nSurface<\/strong><\/td>\nOpponent<\/strong><\/td>\nScore<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWin<\/td>\n2014<\/td>\nUS Open<\/td>\nHard<\/td>\nKei Nishikori<\/td>\n6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20133<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLoss<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\nWimbledon<\/td>\nGrass<\/td>\nRoger Federer<\/td>\n3\u20136, 1\u20136, 4\u20136<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLoss<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\nAustralian Open<\/td>\nHard<\/td>\nRoger Federer<\/td>\n2\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20135), 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 1\u20136<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Marin Cilic Grand Slam finals<\/p>\n

Croatian Cilic won the US Open in 2014, but followed that up with final defeats at Wimbledon and the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

They arrived in 2017 and 2018 respectively, with the player losing to legendary figure Roger Federer on both occasions.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Draper has become the latest seed to go crashing out of Wimbledon, falling in the second round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4294,5005,13793,79,1068,16,15,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-236717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-jack-draper","10":"tag-john-mcenroe","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}