Scott Draper

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**Scott Draper**

Country	Australia
Residence	Gold Coast, Australia
Date of birth	June 5, 1974 (1974-06-05) (age 34)
Place of birth	Brisbane, Australia
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb/12.1 st)
Turned pro	1993
Plays	Left-handed
Career prize money	$1,594,598
Singles
Career record:	107-129
Career titles:	1
Highest ranking:	42 (May 10, 1999)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3r (1997)
French Open	4r (1995-96)
Wimbledon	2r (1998, 2002-03)
US Open	4r (1997)
Doubles
Career record:	26-47
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	132 (February 12, 1996)
Infobox last updated on: 2007.

Scott Dennis Draper (born 5 June 1974 in Queensland, Australia) is an Australian tennis player and golfer. Scott is married to Jessica and they welcomed their first child, a son Jayden Scott Draper on May 3 2007. Scott's first wife, Kellie, died in 1999 from cystic fibrosis after only 18 months of marriage.^{[citation needed]}

1 Tennis career
2 Golf career
3 It Takes Two
4 External links

[edit] Tennis career

He became a tennis professional in 1993, reaching a career high rank of 42 in the ATP Singles during October 1998. Prior to this, he was ranked No. 5 in the junior double rankings (1992), after winning the Wimbledon Junior Doubles title. He played doubles with his brother, Mark Draper, reaching a high rank of 132.

In 2005, he won the Australian Open Mixed Doubles title with fellow Australian Samantha Stosur, defeating Kevin Ullyett and Liezel Huber in the final.

He was Lleyton Hewitt's coach during the Australian Open.

[edit] Golf career

Draper also plays golf professionally, putting him in that rarest category of athlete who has managed to play more than one professional sport. On February 11, 2007, Scott won the New South Wales PGA Championship on the Von Nida Tour, giving him his first professional golf title [1].

[edit] It Takes Two

Now Scott is set to team up with the highly popular Ricki-Lee Coulter on the smash hit show It Takes Two. Scott is currently third favourite to win with bookies placing him at 6.50.