{"id":745401,"date":"2026-08-21T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745401\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:10:18","slug":"us-open-2026-jannik-sinner-and-jack-draper-withdraw-from-flushing-meadows-event-with-a-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745401\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026: Jannik Sinner and Jack Draper withdraw from Flushing Meadows event with a knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

By his own admission, the arm injury which has derailed Draper’s career is “complicated”.<\/p>\n

Scans last year showed the former world number four had bruising on his humerus – the bone that runs from the shoulder to the elbow – in his left arm.<\/p>\n

Draper’s game is anchored by a big serve and forehand, and the injury stopped him generating power on these shots.<\/p>\n

Initially he tried to play through the discomfort, but withdrew from last year’s US Open before his second-round match.<\/p>\n

The next move was taking time away from playing and allowing the injury to heal as he swiftly decided to curtail his 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Draper opted not to play this year’s Australian Open in January, then missed the French Open and Wimbledon as he continued to take precautionary measures.<\/p>\n

He made his latest comeback at the Canadian Open on 4 August, but the sight of him breaking down in tears<\/a> midway through his first-round loss to France’s Terence Atmane led to further concerns.<\/p>\n

Draper did play again nine days later at the Cincinnati Open, but lost in straight sets<\/a> to Spain’s Martin Landaluce after being 5-2 up in the second set.<\/p>\n

Now he has decided to take more time away from the tour. <\/p>\n

His representatives said he was “gutted” after what has clearly been a “tough period”, adding they do not know when he will be back competing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By his own admission, the arm injury which has derailed Draper’s career is “complicated”. Scans last year showed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745401","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\/745401","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=745401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}