Jack Draper’s Wimbledon campaign ended before it began on Monday after the British number four seed withdrew with an arm injury, compounding the disappointment for home fans following Emma Raducanu’s earlier withdrawal. Draper, who had been forced to end last season with a bone injury in the same arm, was scheduled to face qualifier Liam Broady on Centre Court but was ruled out hours before the first-round draw. “I’m devastated,” Draper told reporters. “I’ve worked so hard to be here, but the arm just isn’t right.”

The withdrawal follows Raducanu’s shock exit on Sunday, when the 2021 US Open champion pulled out with a wrist problem before her scheduled first-round match against qualifier Viktorija Golubic. Both absences leave British hopes pinned on Dan Evans and Cameron Norrie, who face higher-ranked opponents in the opening round. Draper, 24, had reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2024 and was bidding to improve on that run after a frustrating 12 months marred by injuries. His absence means the All England Club will field no British seeds in the men’s singles for the first time since 2017.

Across the draw, defending champion Jannik Sinner, world number one Aryna Sabalenka, and eight-time champion Novak Djokovic all began their campaigns on Monday, with Sinner and Djokovic scheduled to play on Centre Court. The trio had briefly threatened to boycott Wimbledon over prize-money disputes, but representatives confirmed on Monday that the protest had been called off.

In the women’s draw, French Open runner-up Maja Chwalińska suffered a dramatic first-round exit after slipping on match point during her grass-court debut. Chwalińska, who had received a wild card, led her match against qualifier Viktorija Golubic 6-4, 5-4, 40-15 before losing her footing on the slippery surface and double-faulting to hand the Czech the win. The Polish player, who reached the Roland Garros final in May, left the court in tears as fans and pundits questioned whether the grass surface had played an outsized role in her defeat.

Elsewhere, Austrian qualifier Jurij Rodionov defeated Dušan Lajović in four sets, while Portugal’s Nuno Borges secured a straight-sets victory over Tristan Boyer to become the first Portuguese man to reach the second round at Wimbledon.

With the tournament barely 24 hours old, the early exits of Draper and Chwalińska—alongside the resolution of the prize-money protest—frame Wimbledon 2026 as a competition already defined by unpredictability and off-court tensions.

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