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Draper with Andy Roddick inset                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Former world No 1 Andy Roddick has given his verdict on Jack Draper\u2019s retirement at the Barcelona Open and addressed when the Brit could return to the tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jack-draper\">Draper<\/a> retired due to a knee injury when trailing 1-4 in the third set of his opening round match against Tomas Martin Etcheverry in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post after his retirement, Draper wrote:\u00a0\u201cSad to retire in Barcelona. I\u2019ve tried hard these last months to stay positive and give my all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take time but I will work my way out of this. Thank you for all the support throughout this process!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his Served podcast, Roddick expressed concern about Draper\u2019s ongoing battles with his body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what it is yet. What you don\u2019t want is the stops and starts for someone this talented, who adds a lot of potential to the sport of tennis,\u201d said the 2003 US Open champion<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what his top line looks like. Last year, he was maybe the third best player in the world [from] January to May. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-injury-crisis-jack-draper-emma-raducanu\"><strong>Carlos Alcaraz, Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu \u2013 are tennis chiefs contributing to an injury crisis?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-relationship-rivalry-kim-clijsters\"><strong>Former world No 1 gives honest opinion on Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019s relationship<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that\u2019s definitely true is when you get hurt and when you get in a cycle of injury, injuries tend to happen more often.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot necessarily in Draper\u2019s case, because one is an elbow and one is a knee, so it\u2019s different parts of the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when you see someone who has an injured right knee and they come back and all of a sudden, there\u2019s s a left ankle turn \u2014 all that s*** is connected somehow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just hope that he can kind of get out of this. We don\u2019t know what the diagnosis is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t sound like he was saying: \u2018I hope to be back next week or in a couple of weeks\u2019. Just judging by what he put out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s not great, is he circling the grass-court season? You\u2019re not going to come back, your first tournament back, and play three out of five sets on clay, I don\u2019t think. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s smart when you\u2019ve had injuries the last year. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Draper, who is ranked 28th, will have 650 points to defend at the upcoming Madrid Open after he was a runner-up at the event last year.<\/p>\n<p>Roddick, though, asserted that this should not be a consideration as he urged Draper to forget about his ranking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m his coach, don\u2019t even mention points to defend,\u201d Roddick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, you know what I would do; I would say, \u2018I don\u2019t care what Earth thinks you\u2019re ranked; we\u2019re deducting those points right now, you\u2019re ranked 90\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re going to have the mentality coming back where we\u2019re going to earn our lunch every day. Defending points with someone who\u2019s been hurt, it\u2019s like: delete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorld Tour Finals is probably off the table [for Draper] unless something amazing happens. Just get rid of it, get it off. I don\u2019t want to hear about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/how-carlos-alcaraz-barcelona-open-withdrawal-affects-world-no-1-battle-jannik-sinner\">How Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s Barcelona Open withdrawal affects No 1 ranking battle with Jannik Sinner<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Draper injury blow leaves Andy Roddick worried as Brit is told to forget about his ranking Ewan West 16 Apr 2026 2:45 PM Jack Draper with Andy Roddick inset Former world No 1 Andy Roddick has given his verdict on Jack Draper\u2019s retirement at the Barcelona Open and addressed when the Brit could return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1885488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}