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British number one Jack Draper marked his post-injury return to action on the ATP Tour with a straight-set victory over Frenchman Quentin Halys in Dubai.<\/b><\/p>\n
Competing on the men’s tour for the first time since the US Open last August, Draper won 7-6 (10-8) 6-3 on his debut at the Dubai Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old, who has slipped to 15th in the world after reaching a career-high ranking of fourth in June, will play Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan or France’s Arthur Rinderknech next.<\/p>\n
Draper contested his first competitive match for 164 days when he played at the Davis Cup Qualifiers earlier in February, beating Norway’s Viktor Durasovic<\/a> in straight sets.<\/p>\n But he had remained absent from tour-level singles competition since withdrawing from the US Open before his second-round match because of a left arm injury six months ago.<\/p>\n Draper won the prestigious Masters 1,000 title at Indian Wells and reached the fourth round of the Australian and French Opens in a promising start to his 2025 season.<\/p>\n But he began struggling with a bruised bone in his service arm during the clay-court swing in April, and the issue progressively worsened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n