Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\nDraper wore a compression sleeve on his arm and he reduced his average first serve speed by 6kms to avoid the pain. And like in last year\u2019s semi-final here, Draper vomited on court in the heat of humidity of New York.<\/p>\n
He endured a physical battle against Argentine world No.203 Federico Agustin Gomez who saved a match point in the third set tiebreak and hit 50 winners.<\/p>\n
But the No.5 seed – who tried to clear up the mess he made on the court – recovered to win 6-4 7-5 6-7 6-2 in just over three hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tough match – I have not played a singles match for a while now,\u201d said Draper<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t my finest performance but credit to my opponent – he played some outstanding tennis. I’ve definitely had to rein in my serve a little bit to make sure to keep the pain down.<\/p>\n
“It is not giving me pain on my serve but the ramp up is squirt quick to be here so I can\u2019t go full-out on my serve. I felt physically fine. The sickness was potentially a bit of nervous energy. I have had problems with my gut.<\/p>\n
“I needed tennis in my legs. I needed to play a three-hour match. I was almost a bit happy I lost the third set because my level wasn’t amazing. Then I felt like towards the end of the fourth I started to get better and better.I look forward to hopefully improving and getting better as the tournament goes on. I am not putting too much expectation on myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Draper, who faces Belgian world No.48 Zizou Bergs next, admitted: I wasn\u2019t too sure if I was going to make it here this year. There’s obviously a recovery process. The return to competition is probably about eight weeks; I’m here seven weeks, so I’m early.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rusty Jack Draper claimed he was \u201ca bit happy\u201d to lose a set in the first round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[46568,7258,46569,101,46567,118,56,54,55,6545,7259],"class_list":{"0":"post-93721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-arm-injury","9":"tag-jack-draper","10":"tag-sickness-update","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-stomach-bugs","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-us-open","18":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93721","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=93721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}