{"id":73485,"date":"2022-09-15T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=73485"},"modified":"2022-09-25T20:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T17:01:39","slug":"roger-federer-retirement-from-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/roger-federer-retirement-from-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer Announces Retirement from Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 41-year-old said in a statement on Thursday that he would retire next week after the upcoming Laver Cup in London. \/ Roger Federer Announces Retirement from Tennis<\/p>\n<p>Federer is widely regarded as one of the best tennis players in history, if not the best. In his great, more than 20-year career, the Swiss set numerous records and records, including the record winner in Wimbledon, which he won eight times. In recent years, &#8220;Fed Ex&#8221; has increasingly struggled with injury problems.<\/p>\n<h2>Roger Federer &#8216;s statement in full:<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;To my tennis family and everyone beyond,<\/p>\n<p>Of all the gifts that tennis has given me over the years, the greatest has undoubtedly been the people I have met, my friends, my competitors, and most importantly, the fans who have brought life to the sport. Today I want to share a message with all of you.<\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, the last three years have presented me with challenges from injuries and surgeries. I&#8217;ve worked hard to get back to my competitive form. But I also know what my body can do and its limitations, and its signals to me have recently been clear. I am 41 years old. I&#8217;ve played more than 1500 matches in 24 years. Tennis has treated me more generously than I ever dreamed possible and now I have to tell myself when it&#8217;s time to retire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To my tennis family and beyond,<\/p>\n<p>With Love,<br \/>Roger <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1UISwK1NIN\">pic.twitter.com\/1UISwK1NIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer\/status\/1570401710685945856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Roger Federer has announced that he will end his tennis career after the Laver Cup, which will take place next week.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old athlete said in a statement on his Instagram account, &#8220;As many of you know, the last three years have passed with injuries and surgeries. I worked hard to get back in shape. However, I knew the capacity of my body and my limits. The message he gave me recently was very valuable. I am 41 years old. In 24 years. I&#8217;ve played more than 1,500 matches. Tennis has been more generous to me than I had ever imagined. Now I realize that my professional career must come to an end. The Laver Cup, the ATP tournament in ALLondon, will be my last. I will play tennis again in the future, but this is definitely not the Grand Slams or the Grand Slams. 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In his great, more than 20-year career, the Swiss set &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":73486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[2018,77179],"class_list":["post-73485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily","category-general","tag-roger-federer","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}