BNP Paribas Open aka Indian Wells

[stroke]

I have long felt the rpm's on the forehand is super telling.

[stotty]

Draper, per ATP shot spot data, averaged about 3300 rpm's on his forehand, which is about as heavy as it gets. He is up there with the likes of Nadal, Berrenttini, Ruud, GMP, Fils. He also really contained his errors off that side, producing the Nadal body blow effect out there.

Jack did great in the final. He was aggressive and quite unstoppable on his serve at times. His inside out forehand to Rune's forehand completely flummoxed Rune. He just couldn't cope with the pace and spin. It turned out to be a great tactic but you need a hell of a forehand to pull that off.

[jimlosaltos]

Jack did great in the final. He was aggressive and quite unstoppable on his serve at times. His inside out forehand to Rune's forehand completely flummoxed Rune. He just couldn't cope with the pace and spin. It turned out to be a great tactic but you need a hell of a forehand to pull that off.

Yup. The inside-out left forehand opened the court up, BUT Draper's ability to end the point down the line was remarkable. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone hit the inside-in forehand hard to the corner so much, so consistently. Draper changed direction MOST of the time, hit 51% of forehand DTL. I'm not sure I've ever seen DTL be a majority of an ATP player's states, but that's what ATP/TDI showed.