{"id":372521,"date":"2025-12-27T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:29:07","slug":"jack-draper-to-miss-australian-open-after-failing-to-recover-in-time-from-injury-jack-draper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372521\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper to miss Australian Open after failing to recover in time from injury | Jack Draper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Draper has announced he will miss next month\u2019s Australian Open after admitting he is not quite ready for a return to top-level competition. The British No 1 has played just one match since Wimbledon, with bone bruising in his left arm curtailing his 2025 season<\/a>, and he is set to be on the sidelines for a little while longer.<\/p>\n

Draper, ranked 10th in the world, said in a video on X on Boxing Day: \u201cUnfortunately, me and my team have decided not to head out to Australia this year. It\u2019s a really, really tough decision, obviously [with] Australia being a grand slam, it\u2019s one of the biggest tournaments in our sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I\u2019ve had this injury for a long time, I\u2019m at the very, very end stages of the process and to step back on court into best-of-five-set tennis so soon just doesn\u2019t seem like a smart decision right now for me and my tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Draper\u2019s arm injury plagued him for much of his campaign, coming to a head at the US Open in August, when he withdrew from his second round match before calling time on his season shortly afterwards. The 24-year-old had been pencilled in to return at the Ultimate Tennis<\/a> Showdown grand final in London earlier in December but he followed advice to take more time in his recovery.<\/p>\n

In skipping the season\u2019s first grand slam, which starts on 18 January in Melbourne, Draper is now likely to target a comeback in February before the defence of his Indian Wells title at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI\u2019ve obviously been through a fair amount of setbacks so far but by far and away this one has been the most difficult, the most challenging, the most complex one that I\u2019ve had. It\u2019s weird, it always seems to manage to make me more resilient, to make me hungrier, to make me want to become the player I want to become even more. I\u2019m looking forward to getting back out there in 2026 and competing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Draper has announced he will miss next month\u2019s Australian Open after admitting he is not quite ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-372521","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\/372521","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=372521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}