{"id":69602,"date":"2026-03-20T20:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/jack-draper-blown-away-in-straight-sets-by-us-star-reilly-opelka-at-miami-open\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:58:13","slug":"jack-draper-blown-away-in-straight-sets-by-us-star-reilly-opelka-at-miami-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/jack-draper-blown-away-in-straight-sets-by-us-star-reilly-opelka-at-miami-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper blown away in straight sets by US star Reilly Opelka at Miami Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018Servebot\u2019 fires down 25 aces to beat British player<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Katie Boulter into third round after win over Tauson<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jack Draper suffered a tough defeat in his opening match at the Miami Open as he could do little to \u00adneutralise a dominant serving performance from Reilly Opelka, who fired down 25 aces in two sets en route to a 7-6(3), 7-6(0) win.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat is a difficult setback for Draper, the 25th seed, as he \u00adcontinues to navigate the early stages of his return to competition from a bone bruise injury that forced him off the tour for seven months. Miami is just the third ATP tournament of his comeback.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/20\/jack-draper-blown-away-in-straight-sets-by-us-star-reilly-opelka-at-miami-open\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Servebot\u2019 fires down 25 aces to beat British player Katie Boulter into third round after win over Tauson Jack Draper suffered a tough defeat in his opening match at the Miami Open as he could do little to \u00adneutralise a dominant serving performance from Reilly Opelka, who fired down 25 aces in two sets en &#8230; <a title=\"Jack Draper blown away in straight sets by US star Reilly Opelka at Miami Open\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/jack-draper-blown-away-in-straight-sets-by-us-star-reilly-opelka-at-miami-open\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jack Draper blown away in straight sets by US star Reilly Opelka at Miami Open\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}