{"id":641848,"date":"2026-06-16T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:37:10","slug":"jack-draper-out-of-queens-hopes-to-return-for-eastbourne-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641848\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper out of Queen\u2019s, Hopes to Return for Eastbourne \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Draper\u2019s comeback took a blow today as the former world No.4 announced that he\u2019s still not fit enough to play next week\u2019s HSBC Championships at Queen\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\" style=\"width:787px;height:auto\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Brit injured a tendon in his right knee during a match with Tomas Martin Etcheverry in Barcelona. He has since pulled out of Madrid, Rome, Roland-Garros and now next week\u2019s 500-level grass court event in London.<\/p>\n<p>Draper, who will be coached by Andy Murray this grass-court season, says he hopes to get back in time for Eastbourne, which takes place the following week.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jack Draper to miss Queen&#8217;s next week and instead play Eastbourne the week after as he recovers from knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recovery going in the right direction, but I\u2019m going to give myself one more week and aim to return at Eastbourne. Very hard to miss one of my favourite events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Eccleshare (@CDEccleshare) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CDEccleshare\/status\/2064354469962289290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 9, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>R\u2019ecovery is going in the right direction, but I\u2019m going to give myself one more week and aim to return at Eastbourne,\u201d Draper said in a statement to\u00a0Sky Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Draper\u2019s comeback took a blow today as the former world No.4 announced that he\u2019s still not fit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641848","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\/641848","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=641848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}