{"id":25700,"date":"2022-09-15T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25700"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:49:06","slug":"tennis-roger-federer-to-retire-from-professional-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/15\/tennis-roger-federer-to-retire-from-professional-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Roger Federer to Retire from professional Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, will retire from top-level tennis after the Laver Cup in London later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss Federer, 41, has not played since Wimbledon 2021, after which he had a third knee operation.<\/p>\n<p>My body&#8217;s message to me lately has been clear,&#8221; Federer said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have played more than 1,500 matches over 24 years. Now I must recognise when it is time to end my competitive career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;To the game of tennis, I love you and will never leave you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, will retire from top-level tennis after the Laver Cup in London later this month. Swiss Federer, 41, has not played since Wimbledon 2021, after which he had a third knee operation. My body&#8217;s message to me lately has been clear,&#8221; Federer said. &#8220;I have played more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[831,3684,6220,584,9713,5538,7419,3954,5448],"class_list":["post-25700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-grand-slam","tag-london","tag-love","tag-roger-federer","tag-swiss","tag-tennis","tag-the-game","tag-will","tag-wimbledon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}