British number three to miss Queen's after delaying injury return

British number three Jack Draper will not play at Queen's next week after delaying his comeback from injury by at least another week. Draper, a semi-finalist in London last year, has not competed since retiring from his only clay-court match of the season in Barcelona on 13 April because of a tendon issue in his right knee.

"Recovery is going in the right direction, but I'm going to give myself one more week and aim to return at Eastbourne," said the 24-year-old.

The women's tournament at Queens, which began on Monday, ends on Sunday, and the men's gets under way the following day. The Eastbourne Open runs from 22-27 June and Wimbledon starts on 29 June. Draper was optimistic that he would be fit for the French Open, which started on 24 May, but he was advised not to rush back into playing five-set tennis on clay.

His most recent tournament in Barcelona was only the fourth event of his comeback from bone bruising in his serving arm, which - bar one match at the US Open - had kept him off the tour since Wimbledon last year. Despite beating Novak Djokovic on his way to the Indian Wells quarter-finals in March, Draper has fallen outside the world's top 100 from a career high of four last summer.

He added three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray to his coaching team for the grass-court season after parting company with Jamie Delgado.