World No. 5 Jack Draper has withdrawn from the U.S. Open with an arm harm, capping off a subpar main season for the British No. 1.
The southpaw didn’t advance previous the fourth spherical on the Australian Open and Roland-Garros and crashed out within the second spherical at Wimbledon — a sequence of underwhelming outcomes for a participant who was touted as a potential member of the brand new Big 3 of men’s tennis.
These excessive expectations have been positioned upon Draper after he reached the semifinal of final yr’s U.S. Open and adopted it up together with his first ATP Masters 1000 title at Indian Wells earlier this yr. Nonetheless, he could not take part in any of the hard-court occasions in preparation for Flushing Meadows resulting from a bone bruising in his left humerus.
Draper performed by way of the harm in his first-round match in opposition to Federico Agustin Gomez on Monday, however withdrew from his second-round match on Wednesday just a few hours earlier than taking the court docket.
