Overview
- Draper was handed a wildcard into the Mubadala DC Open and will make his tour return in Washington starting Monday, July 27.
- His ATP ranking has slipped to about No.147, leaving him outside the US Open main-draw cutoff and likely to need qualifying or a wildcard to reach Flushing Meadows.
- He is entered in the Brownsburg ATP Challenger 75 beginning August 10 as a planned fallback to gain match minutes and win up to 75 ranking points.
- Recurring left-arm bone bruising and a separate knee problem have limited him to roughly a dozen matches this season and forced withdrawals, including a day-before Wimbledon pull-out he called 'devastating'.
- Andy Murray has rejoined Draper in Washington in a short-term coaching capacity while Draper has no protected ranking and must rely on live ranking and wildcards to access higher-level events.