{"id":370956,"date":"2025-12-26T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370956\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:18:07","slug":"world-number-10-jack-draper-to-miss-australian-open-to-focus-on-injury-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370956\/","title":{"rendered":"World number 10 Jack Draper to miss Australian Open to focus on injury recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">British number one Jack Draper will miss the Australian Open next month as he continues to recover from an arm injury.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 10 has not played since withdrawing at the US Open due to bone bruising in his left arm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a really, really tough decision, obviously (with) Australia being a grand slam, it&#8217;s one of the biggest tournaments in our sport,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/draper-jack\/SWxNhpmK\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draper<\/a>, 24, said in a video posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, I&#8217;ve had this injury for a long time, I&#8217;m 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&#8217;t seem like a smart decision right now for me and my tennis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before the injury, Draper had enjoyed the best year of his career as he won his first Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells and broke into the world&#8217;s top 10 for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British number one Jack Draper will miss the Australian Open next month as he continues to recover from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-370956","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\/370956","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=370956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}