"I need to get back to a normal life," Draper loses James Trotman, the coach who brought him to the top

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Jules Hypolite

le 17/10/2025 à 19h06

1 min to read

Delgado Draper

After four years of fruitful collaboration, James Trotman is leaving the staff of the young British prodigy. He is thus passing the baton to Jamie Delgado, former coach of Andy Murray.

Coming off the best season of his young career, Jack Draper will begin 2026 with a renewed staff. Indeed, James Trotman, the main coach of the Indian Wells winner, announced to the BBC that he is ending their collaboration.

The 46-year-old coach had been working with Draper since 2021 and managed to bring him into the top 5 this year. However, between professional life and family life, Trotman had to make a choice:

"These four years have been fantastic. I really enjoyed this experience, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to meet Jack's demands as a player, but also as a father and husband.

I need to regain my energy and lead a somewhat more normal life: watching my son play football on Sundays, going on family vacations."

Trotman will continue to support Draper until November, before making way for Jamie Delgado, the new coach of the world number 9.

"Jamie was one of the few people we could have worked well with. I have enormous respect for him as a person, as a coach, and for the work he has done with Gilles Muller, Andy Murray, and more recently Grigor Dimitrov," Trotman said of his successor.