Jack Draper missed seven weeks of singles competition after discovering bone bruising in his left humerus following the grass season. He first noticed symptoms around the middle of the clay season, with forehands and the serve becoming increasingly painful. He had the injury checked after grass and withdrew temporarily to prevent the condition worsening. Draper maintained fitness through other physical activities and insists the injury did not cause his Wimbledon defeat, attributing that loss to surface adaptation. As the fifth seed at the US Open, he feels confident the injury will not hold him back and looks forward to competing.
I first started feeling it probably towards the middle of the clay season. I felt like my arm was shutting down a little bit when I was hitting forehands and on the serve. It kind of got progressively worse. Then on the grass it got quite painful. So I didn't know what I was dealing with. After the grass, I got it checked out. I had some bone stress, bone bruising, in my humerus on my left side.
It is one of those where, if you keep playing with it, it could become very, very serious. So I had to take some time out. Saying that, it was not so bad, because I could obviously do a lot of other things as well physically. It wasn't like I had to stop completely. Although he was in pain at times during the grass season, Draper does not believe the injury played any role in his Wimbledon loss,
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