{"id":642292,"date":"2026-05-14T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642292\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:27:17","slug":"jack-draper-adds-andy-murray-to-coaching-team-for-grass-season-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642292\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper Adds Andy Murray to Coaching Team for Grass Season \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Erik Gudris | Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Photo credit: LTA<\/p>\n

Jack Draper hopes Andy Murray will bring him much-needed success this summer.<\/p>\n

Draper, the current UK No. 2, announced that the former World No. 1 and two-time Wimbledon champion will join his coaching team in time for this season\u2019s grass court events.<\/p>\n

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According to the BBC, Draper, 24, who parted ways recently with former coach Jamie Delgado, will also continue working with the UK\u2019s Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) for coaching support.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very grateful for everything Jamie Delgado has done for me over these past six months. He is a world-class coach and a great man,\u201d Draper said in a statement. \u00a0\u201cIn the interim, I will continue to be supported by the excellent team at the LTA, with the addition of Andy Murray, who will be supporting me throughout the grass court season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Draper, who reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 last year, has been beset by injuries since late summer that have forced him to miss many events. That includes a knee tendon injury that will prevent him from competing at Roland Garros in a few weeks.<\/p>\n

Draper hired Delgado, who helped coach Murray to World No. 1 during his career, back in October. Yet they only worked together at four events this season due to Draper\u2019s injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Draper, who is set to fall out of the top 50 after Roland Garros, played in a Davis Cup tie versus Norway at the start of the year, then later competed in Dubai in February.<\/p>\n

Since then, Draper has only played eight matches, his last one being a first round loss to Tomas Etcheverry in Barcelona where Draper was forced to retire in the third set.<\/p>\n

Murray himself hasn\u2019t coached anyone since ending a six-month stint with Novak Djokovic last year.<\/p>\n

Draper has not yet finalized his schedule, but could potentially play Stuttgart, where he won his first career ATP title, as his first event back. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Erik Gudris | Tuesday, May 12, 2026Photo credit: LTA Jack Draper hopes Andy Murray will bring him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-642292","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\/642292","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=642292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}