British tennis dealing with extra woe at US Open as Draper provides to Murray uncertainty

“Has her success papered over the cracks? Yeah,” the world No 28 said of Emma Raducanu. “We’ve been lucky, or they’ve been lucky that they had a Grand Slam champion and she was a very good tennis player but the rankings don’t lie, do they? Men’s or women’s, the rankings don’t lie. Men, not many of us playing qualies, not many in the main draw. I don’t want to sound like a broken record. But there’s way further to go than just the top players. It’s from the bottom up.”

And at Wimbledon, Liam Broady was the one man to achieve the third spherical. All of the British males have been eradicated from the match by day 5, with Andy Murray and Cameron Norrie taking part in and shedding their delayed second-round matches as Broady misplaced on the identical day.  “Obviously I’d have preferred for us all to have won. Probably would have felt a bit better if we’d staggered what days we lost on, whereas now it’s a bit of a Debbie Downer, isn’t it?” the British No 4 stated afterwards.

While Draper’s newest retirement has solely added to the query marks surrounding the British males in New York, the ladies may very well be primed to have a very good match. Katie Boulter is at the moment at a career-high of No 60 on the planet and, alongside Jodie Burrage, each made it into the US Open foremost draw off their very own rankings.