{"id":353704,"date":"2026-01-05T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353704\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:53:07","slug":"jack-draper-set-to-return-from-injury-in-great-britain-davis-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353704\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper set to return from injury in Great Britain Davis Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron Norrie, Jacob Fearnley, Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash are also in the squad, while Norway will be led by world number 12 and three-time Grand Slam finalist Casper Ruud.<\/p>\n

The winner will face either Australia or Ecuador in the competition’s second qualifying round in September.<\/p>\n

In a post on X late last month,, external<\/a> Draper described the injury as one of the most “challenging” and “complex” of his career.<\/p>\n

He said the decision not to compete in the Australian Open, which begins on 18 January, had been “really, really tough”.<\/p>\n

Draper struggled with discomfort in the top part of his serving arm – his left – for several months, eventually shutting down his season after withdrawing from the US Open in August.<\/p>\n

It came after a successful first part of the year, with Draper reaching a career-high of fourth in the world in June and also securing a maiden Masters 1000 title with victory at Indian Wells in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie, Jacob Fearnley, Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash are also in the squad, while Norway will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-353704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}