But while Draper has been in the limelight this year, the 23-year-old is keen to keep his feet firmly on the ground… something exemplified by his choice of motor.

Even though he banked close to £800,000 in prize money alone from his US Open semi-final run, the Sutton-born star admitted he drives a second-hand banger.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Draper revealed: “I still drive a second-hand Polo. I’m not materialistic. I don’t find who I am or what I do very impressive.”

Despite the modest assessment of his profession, Draper admitted he’s entering 2025 in the mindset he wants to be as successful as possible.

“When I was a bit younger, I used to love just [doing] a bit of training, and then come back and eat crisps all day and watch TV,” he continued. “But now that I feel like I’ve got a goal and a purpose bigger than myself, I want to be busy the whole time. I want to be progressing.

“That’s all I think about really. So when I have days off, when I have times where I’m injured or I can’t play, or I can’t get in the gym, I do find it incredibly difficult.

“I’ve started to understand now why Andy [Murray] struggled to leave the sport. [As tennis players] we’re chasing something the whole time, we’re busy with that dopamine hit of winning and playing and travelling. It’s not real life. So when you go back to not having a lot of stuff on, it’s kind of like, ‘I’ve got another six hours till the end of the day. What am I going to do? Watch some TV?’”

Before claiming he sympathises with Murray as to why he was so keen to become Novak Djokovic’s coach, despite hanging up his racket in the summer.

Draper said: “It’s obviously a shock that he [Murray] is going to be with Djokovic [as a coach for at least the start of the new season].

“But I can understand that he probably wants that buzz again. I’m definitely wired a little bit that way, as well. I suppose the sport wires you to be that way.”

Draper’s first big test of the year will come at the Australian Open, which gets underway in mid-January.