A former Top 5 dropped out of the Madrid Open at the last minute and extended his ordeal due to injuries
Injuries are a determining factor that can alter the lives of professional tennis players. There are countless cases in which the careers of certain Éltie athletes took a sudden turn or simply did not meet expectations due to physical suffering. In the last hours, a former world number 4 had to withdraw from the Madrid Open and extended his ordeal: Jack Draper (28th).
The Briton reached the Top 5 in 2025, after winning the Indian Wells Masters 1000 and being a finalist in Madrid. However, just a few months later his nightmare began: after winning in the first round of the US Open (against the Argentine Federico Gómez), he could not appear in the second round. The reason? A “complex” bone contusion on his left arm, an injury that took him out of competition for five months.
Draper returned in February 2026 to play his country’s Davis Cup series against Norway. But not everything was rosy on his return. Despite a huge victory against Novak Djokovic in the round of 16 at Indian Wells (among other results), he had to stop again.
On April 13, at the ATP 500 in Barcelona, he could not finish his match against Tomas Etcheverry, when he fell 1-4 in the third set. In this case, A knee injury has caused him to mistreat and he will not be able to defend the points obtained for having been a finalist in 2025.
This way, Draper will fall noticeably in the world ranking: in the live ranking, he has already dropped to number 46 on the planet. To make matters worse, depending on how the results turn out, it may continue to decline.
