Taylor Fritz vs Jack Draper – Paris Olympics Tennis Prediction and Pick 7/30/24

Taylor Fritz will face Jack Draper in the second round of the 2024 Paris Olympics tennis tournament. The match is scheduled for Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Here’s our Taylor Fritz vs Jack Draper prediction.

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Taylor Fritz remains in the hunt for a podium finish at the Paris Olympics after missing out on competing in Tokyo three years ago. The big-serving American opened his account at the tournament with a straight-sets win over World No. 25 Alexander Bublik. The match took 20 games to decide and precisely an hour on the time clock.

In the victory, Fritz tallied 12 aces in a domineering serving performance. He landed 68% first serves and won 91% first-serve points (29/32). Fritz also won 80% of second-serve points (12/15) and converted two of five break points (one in each set). Overall, he hammered 30 winners in the match.

Jack Draper, meanwhile, kept the British flag flying high on his Olympics debut. He defeated three-time French Open quarterfinalist Kei Nishikori 6-1, 6-4 in 69 minutes. In the victory, Draper fired three aces and one double fault. He landed 71% of the first serves. Draper won 83% of the first-serve points (35/42) and 41% of the second-serve points (7/17).

The British lefty converted three of five break points and saved all four break points he faced on his own delivery. Draper has a winless record at Roland Garros, losing in the first round on each of his two trips. But in beating Nishikori, he is off the mark on the venue.

Taylor Fritz vs Jack Draper Head-To-Head

• Fritz and Draper have played against each other twice on the ATP Tour, and the h2h is locked at 1-1.

• Draper was victorious when they met at Queen’s in 2022, but Fritz won their most recent match on the clay in Munich in three sets.

Taylor Fritz vs Jack Draper Prediction

Their match in Munich in late April should be an excellent barometer of what we can expect here. They played on clay, and Fritz won a thriller in a third-set tie-break. Draper remains a novice on this surface and enters this match as a massive underdog. But if he is capable of finishing points with poise as he does on hard and grass courts, he can challenge Fritz. I still feel the American has that baseline robustness on clay that edges Draper, but this will be close.