{"id":597110,"date":"2026-04-21T07:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597110\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:03:13","slug":"jack-draper-and-karolina-muchova-join-growing-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597110\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper and Karolina Muchova join growing list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Draper has become the latest ATP star to withdraw from the Madrid Open with the total number of players who have pulled out of the combined ATP-WTA tournament now more than 20.<\/p>\n

The WTA 1000 competition gets underway on Tuesday, 21 April at Caja Magica in the Spanish capital while the ATP event starts the following day, but organisers have suffered several withdrawals in the buildup to the tournament.<\/p>\n

The biggest setback so far has been the absence of two-time champion and Spanish hero Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> as the world No 2 withdrew last week after picking up a forearm injury during his Barcelona Open campaign.<\/p>\n

That news came just hours after tennis great Novak Djokovic announced<\/a> that he would not feature at the ATP Masters tournament as he is still recovering from an unspecified injury.<\/p>\n

Tennis News<\/p>\n

ATP Madrid Open draw: Sinner\u2019s entry confirmed; Shelton, Fils & Musetti in same quarter<\/a><\/p>\n

WTA Madrid Open draw: Swiatek-Andreeva rematch on cards, Rybakina, Gauff, Mboko bottom half, Eala gets qualifier<\/a><\/p>\n

Draper was due to be seeded 24th in Madrid, but he sustained an injury at the Barcelona Open last week and has confirmed he has \u201cAn aggravated tendon in my knee\u201d that not only puts him out of the Spanish tournament but also the Italian Open.<\/p>\n

American duo Taylor Fritz (No 7) and Francis Tiafoe (No 19) are the other two seeded players who have pulled out of the clay-court tournament.<\/p>\n

ATP Madrid Open withdrawal list<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz (world No 2) \u2013 replaced by Sebastian Ofner
\nNovak Djokovic (world No 4) \u2013 replaced by Adam Walton
\nTaylor Fritz (world No 8) \u2013 replaced by Roberto Bautista Agut
\nFrances Tiafoe (world No 19) \u2013 replaced by Jesper de Jong
\nJack Draper (world No 28) \u2013 replaced by Lucky Loser (TBC)
\nHolger Rune (world No 39) \u2013 replaced by Francisco Comesana
\nSebastian Korda (world No 40) \u2013 replaced by Alexander Shevchenko
\nGiovanni Mpetshi Perricard (world No 53) \u2013 replaced by Alexandre Muller
\nArthur Cazaux (world No 73) \u2013 replaced by Alexander Blockx
\nKamil Majchrzak (world No 74) \u2013 replaced by Thiago Agustin Tirante<\/p>\n

WTA Madrid Open withdrawal list<\/p>\n

There is better news for organisers in terms of the top-10 women as they will all be in action with Aryna Sabalenka headlining the draw along with Elena Rybakina, Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n

But Karolina Muchova has been the highest seed to withdraw as the 11th-seeded Czech pulled out following her runners-up finish at the Stuttgart Open.<\/p>\n

Muchoav lost against Rybakina in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix final and has cited fatigue as the reason for her withdrawal.<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu (No 27), Emma Navarro (No 28) and Maya Joint (No 29) are the other seeded players who have withdrawn.<\/p>\n

Karolina Muchova (world No 11) \u2013 replaced by Viktorija Golubic
\n Emma Raducanu (world No 27) \u2013 replaced by Ajla Tomljanovic
\n Emma Navarro (world No 28) \u2013 replaced by Ashlyn Krueger
\nMaya Joint (world No 29) \u2013 replaced by Moyuka Uchijima
\nSara Bejlek (world No 34) \u2013 replaced by Zeynep Sonmez
\nBarbora Krejcikova (world No 41) \u2013 replaced by Irina-Camelia Begu
\nMarketa Vondrousova (world No 42) \u2013 replaced by Julia Grabher
\nMcCartney Kessler (world No 47) \u2013 replaced by Kamilla Rakhimova
\nSonay Kartal (world No 55) \u2013 replaced by Petra Marcinko
\nVarvara Gracheva (world No 55) \u2013 replaced by Eva Lys
\nVeronika Kudermetova (world No 66) \u2013 replaced by Taylor Townsend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Draper has become the latest ATP star to withdraw from the Madrid Open with the total number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-597110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597110","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=597110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}