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<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jack-draper\">Jack Draper<\/a>\u2019s deflated ranking will leave him waiting for a wildcard to play in the US Open and former British No 1 Greg Rusedski believes he has earned the right be give a chance to play in the final Grand Slam of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Draper reached the semi-finals of the US Open in 2024 and rose to No 4 in the world as he won the Indian Wells Masters t nitle the following year, but his ambitions have been severely hampered by injuries over the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The Brit made a comeback at Indian Wells in March and impressed with a run to the quarter-finals, before he was sidelined again by a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>He was then forced to pull out of Wimbledon due a recurrence of his arm injury after he reached the semi-finals of the Eastbourne Open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jack-draper\">Draper<\/a> is now preparing for another comeback attempt as he plays in the ATP 500 event in Washington, with his coach Andy Murray extending his partnership that was due to end after Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jack-draper-beats-top-10-player-in-practice-washington-open\">Jack Draper beats top 10 player in practice match ahead of the Washington Open<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/jack-draper-andy-murray-partnership-kick-start-washington-dc\">Jack Draper and Andy Murray set to kick-start partnership again in North America<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Draper\u2019s ranking does not gain him entry into Grand Slam events and he may have to enter qualifying unless new USTA chief Craig Tiley and his committee give him a prized wildcard for the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Those wildcards are primarily reserved for youthful US players, but Rusedski believes Tiley will see the benefit of handing Draper a ticket to play at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCraig is a smart man and you need to keep the top players happy,\u201d said Rusedski, in an extract of the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@offcourtwithgreg\">latest episode of his podcast published exclusively on Tennis365.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Jack is healthy with Andy Murray, that still creates a lot of buzz in America if you have that relationship in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if the form\u2019s there, yes, he should get a wildcard. If the form isn\u2019t there, then it\u2019s a no. But I\u2019m on the optimistic version that the form\u2019s gonna happen and we\u2019re gonna find out this week in Washington where he\u2019s at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t forget, Jack was the guy everybody was talking about to mix it up with (Carlos) Alcaraz, (Jannik) Sinner and (Novak) Djokovic and he was on the cusp of being in there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won Indian Wells and reached the finals in Madrid. And then he\u2019s had a horrid year where he hasn\u2019t been able to play. So the USTA will look at it because what they gotta remember is if Jack\u2019s healthy, he\u2019s one of the biggest names in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s too big of a talent not to be out there. Let\u2019s see how many weeks he can go through and hopefully he runs all the way through US Open and we don\u2019t have to talk about injuries anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rusedski also backed Murray to add a new dimension to Draper\u2019s game, as he welcomed the extension of their player-coach partnership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard the rumour was Andy\u2019s probably gonna do ten or twelve weeks with him, even though it was only supposed to be a trial until the end of Wimbledon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndy brings great experience. He\u2019s won majors, he\u2019s come back from injuries. He\u2019s our best British tennis player in the open era by far. So it\u2019s great to see Andy there with him trying to guide him through this difficult period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack looks very good in practice. It\u2019s a question of whether the pop is there on the serve? Is he going to be able to sustain his fitness?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo fingers crossed that he can start winning some matches. Health is your wealth and if he\u2019s healthy, the combination with Murray could work out really well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong term, if Andy is not there for every event, they\u2019re probably gonna have to bring in a second coach. That\u2019s the reality of it, if Jack ends up being able to be healthy and play back-to-back weeks and play a normal schedule. So fingers crossed for Jack. We need him back. We need him back to his best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/kyle-edmund-exclusive-interview-injuries-withdrawals-emma-raducanu-jack-draper\">Emma Raducanu &amp; Jack Draper injuries spark Kyle Edmund to call for a \u2018compromise\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New US Open chief urged to be \u2018a smart guy\u2019 before making Jack Draper decision Kevin Palmer 27 Jul 2026 8:00 AM Andy Murray and Jack Draper Jack Draper\u2019s deflated ranking will leave him waiting for a wildcard to play in the US Open and former British No 1 Greg Rusedski believes he has earned [&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-2063292","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\/2063292","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=2063292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}