{"id":371872,"date":"2025-12-26T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:05:08","slug":"jack-draper-will-miss-the-australian-open-because-of-arm-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371872\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper will miss the Australian Open because of arm injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early December, world number 10 Draper also pulled out<\/a> of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS) grand final in London, citing his frustration at not being “quite ready”. <\/p>\n

Draper first felt discomfort in his upper left serving arm during the clay-court season in the spring, and while he attempted to return at the US Open in late August playing alongside Jessica Pegula in the mixed doubles and winning his first-round match in the singles, he then withdrew from the tournament because of the discomfort. <\/p>\n

He continued: “Obviously, with Australia being a Grand Slam, it’s one of the biggest tournaments in our sport. <\/p>\n

“However, I’ve had this injury for a long time. I’m at the very, very end stages of the [recovery] process and to step back on court into best-of-five-set tennis so soon just doesn’t seem like a smart decision right now for me and my tennis.<\/p>\n

“I’ve obviously been through a fair amount of setbacks but by far, this one has been the most difficult, the most challenging, the most complex one that I’ve had.”<\/p>\n

Draper performed strongly in the first part of the year, reaching a career-high world ranking of four in June and also securing a maiden Masters 1000 title<\/a> with victory over Denmark’s Holger Rune in the Indian Wells final in March. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In early December, world number 10 Draper also pulled out of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS) grand final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-371872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}