{"id":17315,"date":"2025-07-20T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jack-draper-briton-targets-us-open-return-after-arm-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:18:39","slug":"jack-draper-briton-targets-us-open-return-after-arm-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jack-draper-briton-targets-us-open-return-after-arm-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper: Briton targets US Open return after arm injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British number one Jack Draper has withdrawn from forthcoming tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati because of an arm injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the 23-year-old is targeting a return at the US Open, which begins on 24 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Draper, who reached the US Open semi-finals in 2024, said on social media: &#8220;After Wimbledon I picked up an injury in my left arm, nothing serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have to make sure it recovers fully for the rest of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Canadian Open gets under way on 26 July, while the Cincinnati Open starts on 4 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Draper was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c5y7vprq7lzo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">knocked out of Wimbledon<\/a> in the second round as he lost in four sets to Croatia&#8217;s Marin Cilic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is not the only big name to withdraw from the Canadian Open, with Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner and 24-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic also confirming they will not play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cx2jz8dynvdo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British number one Jack Draper has withdrawn from forthcoming tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati because of an arm injury. But the 23-year-old is targeting a return at the US Open, which begins on 24 August. Draper, who reached the US Open semi-finals in 2024, said on social media: &#8220;After Wimbledon I picked up an injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17317,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions\/17317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}