{"id":49146,"date":"2022-09-15T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=49146"},"modified":"2022-09-15T23:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:03:50","slug":"roger-federer-to-retire-from-tennis-after-laver-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/09\/15\/roger-federer-to-retire-from-tennis-after-laver-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer to retire from tennis after Laver Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tennis legend Roger Federer has announced he will retire from the sport at the age of 41. The 20-time Grand Slam champion has been struggling with a knee problem for the last three years and has decided now is the time to step away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federer will play in next week&#8217;s Laver Cup in London, the Ryder Cup-style competition that was his brainchild, but will then leave the professional game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federer made the announcement via a letter posted on social media: &#8220;To my tennis family and beyond. Of all the gifts that tennis has given me over the years, the greatest, without a doubt, has been the people I&#8217;ve met along the way: my friends, my competitors, and most of all the fans who give the sport its life. Today, I want to share some news with all of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As many of you know, the past three years have presented me with challenges in the form of injuries and surgeries. I&#8217;ve worked hard to return to full competitive form.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Roger Federer has announced he will retire from the sport at the age of 41. The 20-time Grand Slam champion has been struggling with a knee problem for the last three years and has decided now is the time to step away. Federer will play in next week&#8217;s Laver Cup in London, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49148,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49146\/revisions\/49148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}