The 23-year-old has had a disrupted build-up to the Australian Open, with a hip drawback inflicting him to overlook the United Cup and cancel a coaching camp with four-time main champion Carlos Alcaraz.
Draper mentioned he had been making an attempt to adapt to the warmth by utilizing saunas and “bikes in sizzling bubbles”, alongside arriving in Australia two-and-a-half weeks earlier than the Grand Slam event started.
“It is not simply the tennis, it is a massive psychological recreation as properly and it is how we recuperate after factors and cope with stress normally, whether or not that be the tennis or the situations,” Draper mentioned.
“I feel my prep for the warmth this yr has been so much higher than earlier years.”
Draper, who’s seeded fifteenth at Melbourne Park, has been practising alongside world primary Sinner and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic earlier than his first-round match towards Argentina’s Mariano Navone on Monday.
“They simply carry such a top quality to the follow courtroom It is actually nice to have the ability to spar with that sort of stage of depth and work ethic,” Draper added.