{"id":9333,"date":"2026-02-23T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:08:01","slug":"jack-draper-british-number-one-makes-winning-return-to-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9333","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper: British number one makes winning return to ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British number one Jack Draper marked his post-injury return to action on the ATP Tour with a straight-set victory over Frenchman Quentin Halys in Dubai.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Competing on the men&#8217;s tour for the first time since the US Open last August, Draper won 7-6 (10-8) 6-3 on his debut at the Dubai Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old, who has slipped to 15th in the world after reaching a career-high ranking of fourth in June, will play Hungary&#8217;s Fabian Marozsan or France&#8217;s Arthur Rinderknech next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Draper contested his first competitive match for 164 days when he played at the Davis Cup Qualifiers earlier in February, beating Norway&#8217;s Viktor Durasovic in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he had remained absent from tour-level singles competition since withdrawing from the US Open before his second-round match because of a left arm injury six months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Draper won the prestigious Masters 1,000 title at Indian Wells and reached the fourth round of the Australian and French Opens in a promising start to his 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he began struggling with a bruised bone in his service arm during the clay-court swing in April, and the issue progressively worsened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British number one Jack Draper marked his post-injury return to action on the ATP Tour with a straight-set victory over Frenchman Quentin Halys in Dubai. Competing on the men&#8217;s tour for the first time since the US Open last August, Draper won 7-6 (10-8) 6-3 on his debut at the Dubai Tennis Championships. The 24-year-old,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}