‘i Won’t Be Holding Back’: Jack Draper Raring To Go At Us Open After Injury Layoff

Jack Draper believes he will not beryllium held backmost by immoderate beingness symptom arsenic he faces nan situation of uncovering his shape astatine nan US Open aft a seven-week wounded hiatus.

Draper, nan 5th seed successful New York, has not competed successful singles since a difficult loss to Marin Cilic successful nan 2nd information of Wimbledon aft learning that he had been suffering from bony bruising successful his near arm.

“It was thing I was playing done for a while,” said Draper, who plays qualifier Federico Agustin Gómez successful nan first information connected Monday. “I first started emotion it astir apt towards nan mediate of nan clay season. I felt for illustration my limb was shutting down a small spot erstwhile I was hitting forehands and connected nan serve. It benignant of sewage progressively worse. Then connected nan writer it sewage rather painful. So I didn’t cognize what I was dealing with.

“After nan grass, I sewage it checked out. I had immoderate bony stress, bony bruising, successful my humerus connected my near side. It is 1 of those where, if you support playing pinch it, it could go very, very serious. So I had to return immoderate clip out. Saying that, it was not truthful bad, because I could evidently do a batch of different things arsenic good physically. It wasn’t for illustration I had to extremity completely.”

Although he was successful symptom astatine times during nan writer season, Draper does not judge nan wounded played immoderate domiciled successful his Wimbledon loss, which he said was purely down to his struggles to accommodate to nan surface.

“It’s an wounded which takes clip to heal,” said Draper. “A bony tin heal, but it mightiness beryllium giving maine immoderate discomfort, that’s for sure. It’s not thing which I’m going to spell retired connected Monday and consciousness for illustration it’s holding maine backmost astatine all. But astatine nan aforesaid time, I person been looking aft this for nan past period aliases so, truthful I’m looking guardant to conscionable getting backmost to competing. I deliberation that will return my mind disconnected a batch of things. I don’t consciousness for illustration I’ll beryllium holding backmost astatine all.”