IT'S CURTAINS FOR DRAPER

Bublik has all the tricks to ruin Jack's run for Grand Slam glory

- NEIL MCLEMAN

ALEXANDER BUBLIK has revealed his return to form this summer followed a successful trip to Las Vegas.

And the Russian-born Kazakh gambled and won again against Jack Draper at the French Open yesterday to upset the odds against the in-form world No.5.

The British No.1 was backed to be a future Grand Slam winner by John McEnroe and Mats Wilander after his first ever wins here.

But yesterday Bublik hit the jackpot with a crazily un-predictable display which mixed 37 drop shots - including 12 outright winners - with second-serve aces and outrageous groundstrokes. He clubbed 68 winners in all.

Draper, who had reached the final at the Madrid Masters, could never guess what the former world No.17 was going to deal next.