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during an interview                            <\/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> says he has endured a \u2018perfect storm\u2019 of injuries that have derailed his career since May 2025, but believes the addition of Andy Murray to his coaching team has been a \u2018massive benefit\u2019 as he prepares for his comeback.<\/p>\n<p>The Brit has been plagued by a series of physical setbacks for more than a year, with his problems beginning during last season\u2019s clay-court swing when he suffered a bone bruise in his left arm.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jack-draper\">Draper<\/a> managed to reach the semi-finals at Queen\u2019s Club before being knocked out of Wimbledon by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/marin-cilic\">Marin Cilic<\/a> in the second round just over a week later.<\/p>\n<p>He then attempted to return at the US Open, but withdrew after battling through his opening-round match.<\/p>\n<p>Draper subsequently decided to rest for the remainder of the season and was forced to miss this year\u2019s Australian Open due to the ongoing arm problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Brit appeared to have turned a corner at the start of 2026, reaching the last 16 at the Indian Wells Masters and recording an impressive victory over 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic along the way.<\/p>\n<p>However, he lost his opening match at the Miami Open before retiring during the Barcelona Open, forcing him to miss the remainder of the clay-court season as well as Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>After splitting with coach Jamie Delgado, Draper appointed three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray to his team in mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have only competed at one tournament together so far, the Eastbourne Open, and are set to continue their partnership at Draper\u2019s next event, the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth Masters 1000 tournament of the season takes place from August 2 to 13.<\/p>\n<h2>Latest Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/jannik-sinner-could-end-up-20-plus-grand-slams-serena-williams-former-coach\">Roger Federer\u2019s former coach hails Alex Eala after Naomi Osaka masterclass<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/tennis-legend-identify-player-can-stop-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz-not-alexander-zverev\">Alexander Zverev misses out as legend names Carlos Alcaraz &amp; Jannik Sinner\u2019s biggest challengers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had obviously an addition of Sir Andy [Murray] coming on to the team which has been a massive benefit for me considering he\u2019s someone who\u2019s been through a lot of struggle in his career,\u201d the Brit told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/tennis\/news\/12040\/13569164\/jack-draper-former-world-no-4-calls-for-patience-amid-perfect-storm-of-injuries-ahead-of-possible-us-open-return\">Sky Sports during a recent interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for people to recognise as well that the injury I have is very complex, it\u2019s very complicated and everyone around me is doing everything we can to help this keep moving along.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not as simple as rest and heal up and you\u2019ll come back and you\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything outside of tennis I\u2019m doing amazingly well, everything on the court I\u2019m managing really well as well so I\u2019m at a point now where I\u2019m happy that I will come through this period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just going to take some time, but I\u2019m doing all the right things, and the people around me are really supporting me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Draper has fallen 143 places in the rankings over the past 12 months and currently sits at world No 147.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the dramatic drop, the 24-year-old believes his patience is beginning to pay off and that he is now in his best physical condition since the arm injury first emerged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in the best place that I\u2019ve been in the last year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process that I\u2019ve been on it\u2019s a real patience game. It\u2019s also just getting the right load, getting the right intensity, having the time to let all the things that I\u2019m doing away from the court and on the court to come together, so I can hopefully get to the point where I do make that breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am able to really progress and stay on the court and those things and I\u2019m getting closer to that moment and I believe that moment is now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s been difficult to go to tournaments and have to maybe pull out the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut those are calls that I\u2019m making based on the fact that I\u2019ve got a long career ahead of me and I\u2019ve had to go there to know where I\u2019m at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really has been a perfect storm for me in a lot of ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I do get out of this storm I\u2019m going to be pushing on to hopefully get to where I want to be and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Draper explains why his comeback has taken so long amid injury \u2018perfect storm\u2019 Oliver Paton 02 Aug 2026 4:30 PM Jack Draper during an interview Jack Draper says he has endured a \u2018perfect storm\u2019 of injuries that have derailed his career since May 2025, but believes the addition of Andy Murray to his coaching [&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-2073949","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\/2073949","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=2073949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2073949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2073949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2073949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}