LONDON (AP) \u2014 Jack Draper, who has played just one tennis match since Wimbledon because of injury, will not be fit for next month\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n
The 10th-ranked Draper\u2019s 2025 season was prematurely curtailed by bone bruising in his left arm.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, me and my team have decided not to head out to Australia this year,\u201d the 24-year-old British player said in a video on X on Friday. \u201cIt\u2019s a really, really tough decision. Obviously Australia being a Grand Slam, it\u2019s one of the biggest tournaments in our sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, I\u2019ve had this injury for a long time. I\u2019m at the very, very end stages of the process and to step back on court into best-of-five-set tennis so soon just doesn\u2019t seem like a smart decision right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Draper withdrew from his second-round match at the US Open in August before calling time on his season soon after. He was beaten by Marin Cilic in the second round of Wimbledon in July.<\/p>\n
The Australian Open in Melbourne starts on January 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Jack Draper, who has played just one tennis match since Wimbledon because of injury, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-375321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375321","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=375321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}