{"id":714497,"date":"2026-06-19T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714497\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:54:13","slug":"jack-draper-to-make-injury-return-at-eastbourne-but-emma-raducanu-does-not-take-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714497\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper to make injury return at Eastbourne but Emma Raducanu does not take wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Jack Draper will make his long-awaited return from injury at Eastbourne next week – and he will be watched by new coach Andy Murray.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old has not played competitively since early April and needs match practice before Wimbledon starts on 29 June.<\/p>\n

After withdrawing from Queen’s last week, Draper now feels ready to play at Eastbourne and prove his fitness before the Championships begin.<\/p>\n

Eastbourne will be Draper’s first tournament under the guidance of Murray, who was brought into the 2024 US Open semi-finalist’s team<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

Former world number one Murray, speaking exclusively to BBC Sport this week, says he hopes to work with Draper on a long-term basis.<\/p>\n

Draper had been with Murray’s former coach Jamie Delgado before making a surprise announcement that the three-time Grand Slam singles champion would be “supporting” him over the grass-court season.<\/p>\n

Asked if the partnership is a long-term project, 39-year-old Murray said: “I hope so.<\/p>\n

“I think the number one priority for Jack and the team just now is getting him back on the match court, competing and gaining trust in his body again.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Emma Raducanu has opted not to play in Eastbourne, which starts on Monday.<\/p>\n

The British women’s number one reached the Queen’s final last week,<\/a> but the 23-year-old will continue her Wimbledon preparations on the practice courts next week.<\/p>\n

Home players Arthur Fery, Jacob Fearnley, Jack Pinnington Jones, Francesca Jones, Alicia Dudeney and Hannah Klugman have been given wildcards for the combined ATP-WTA event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Jack Draper will make his long-awaited return from injury at Eastbourne next week – and he will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-714497","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\/714497","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=714497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}