{"id":128440,"date":"2025-09-08T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128440\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:42:09","slug":"7th-ranked-jack-draper-arm-to-miss-rest-of-tennis-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128440\/","title":{"rendered":"7th -ranked Jack Draper (arm) to miss rest of tennis season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"ad748b23-89bf-3a17-ed66-f592fd6f2b0b\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3856\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Draper<\/a> will miss the remainder of the tennis season with a left arm injury that forced him to pull out of a second-round match at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh-ranked player, who reached the U.S. Open semifinals last year, has been bothered by the injury most of the season and was diagnosed with a bone bruise following a loss to <a data-player-guid=\"d24f948a-481d-75c9-9c3c-855364317760\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=464\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marin Cilic<\/a> in the second round at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very difficult for me to accept as I was building some incredible momentum this year and playing some great stuff,&#8221; Draper said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;However I&#8217;ve been through this before and I always come back stronger as I&#8217;m so motivated to fulfil my potential as a player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Draper had not played singles since Wimbledon because of the injury to his upper left arm, but was able to beat <a data-player-guid=\"6754f29c-a76c-30d5-b3d5-acdf17825723\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=10155\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federico Agustin Gomez<\/a> in the opening round of the U.S. Open before pulling out prior to his second-round match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Draper will miss the remainder of the tennis season with a left arm injury that forced him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-128440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}