{"id":866468,"date":"2026-08-21T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:11:06","slug":"jack-draper-out-of-us-open-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866468\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper Out of US Open \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        August<\/p>\n<p class=\"tn-article-dek\">Injury sidelines Jack Draper from all four Grand Slams this year.<\/p>\n<p>Richard PagliaroAugust 21, 20261 minute read<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tn-article-hero\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787335864_20_Draper-Face-RobNewell-CameraSport.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Draper Out of US Open\"\/>      <\/p>\n<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, August 21, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Rob Newell\/CameraSport<\/p>\n<p>The US Open has lost a leading lefty.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Indian Wells champion Jack Draper officially withdrew from the US Open today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/610X150-Slide_PRO-PLAYER7-13-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68391\" style=\"width:730px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A chronic left arm issue has sidelined Draper, one of the most dynamic players in the game when healthy, from all four Grand Slam tournaments this season.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed Briton joins world No. 1 Jannik Sinner, sidelined with a right knee injury, in withdrawing from Flushing Meadows. <\/p>\n<p>It continues a season of pain for Draper, a former world No. 4, who has been battling a bone bruise in his left arm throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Draper\u2019s last major match was a four-set win over Federico Agustin Gomez in the 2025 US Open first round. Draper was forced to withdraw prior to his second-round Flushing Meadows match and has not contested a major since.<\/p>\n<p>Now ranked No. 143, Draper has posted an 8-6 record in 2026. Among those eight wins was an electrifying 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(5) Indian Wells triumph over Novak Djokovic in one of the best hard-court matches of the season.<\/p>\n<p>On that night in Palm Springs, Draper showed his skills are still among the best in the world even if his body continues to betray him.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Express \u2022 End of Summer Sale \u2022 Aug 12\u201326<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/end-of-summer-sale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer sponsored nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787004011_974_end-of-summer-610x130.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis Express \u2022 End of Summer Sale \u2022 Aug 12\u201326\"\/><\/a>This shared campaign placement updates across current and archived stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August Injury sidelines Jack Draper from all four Grand Slams this year. Richard PagliaroAugust 21, 20261 minute read&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-866468","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\/866468","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=866468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}