{"id":324956,"date":"2025-12-04T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324956\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:15:22","slug":"jack-draper-pulls-out-of-uts-grand-finale-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324956\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper Pulls Out of UTS Grand Finale \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Draper<\/a> has not played since the US Open. The British star was planning to test out his injured left arm this weekend at UTS, but he has announced that he isn\u2019t quite ready to join the eight-player field in London this year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHi guys. I\u2019ve been working hard to be back for UTS in London but frustratingly I\u2019m just not quite ready. It\u2019s a tough call as at this point I want nothing more than to get out there and compete but I\u2019ve been advised to take more time. I\u2019m sorry to let down fans and miss out on this event,\u201d Draper said.<\/p>\n

Draper will be replaced in Group B by last year\u2019s semi-finalist in London Ugo Humbert.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More on this weekend\u2019s event, per the UTS<\/p>\n

All eight players competing at the Copper Box Arena, including Humbert, have been ranked inside the World\u2019s Top 20.\u00a0 The Frenchman has a career high ranking of 13 and owns seven career ATP titles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Humbert will face tough competition from De Minaur, Andrey Rublev, Tomas Machac, Casper Ruud, Francisco Cerundolo, David Goffin and Adrian Mannarino. Between them they have won 53 ATP Tour titles and 8 UTS Tour titles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Play gets underway at 5pm on Friday with the unique UTS All Star Game before all eight players take to the court for a packed evening of entertainment and world class sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Draper had a breakthrough in 2025, making his Top 5 debut and winning his first Masters title at Indian Wells, but injuries caught up with him and shortened his season. He pulled out of his second match at the US Open and did not play again.<\/p>\n

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His injury \u2013 bone stress and bruising in his humerus \u2013 originally started in the spring but did not improve with rest during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Draper has not played since the US Open. The British star was planning to test out his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-324956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}