{"id":8056,"date":"2024-10-10T09:48:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2024-10-10T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:37:41","slug":"tennis-legend-nadal-confirms-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/10\/10\/tennis-legend-nadal-confirms-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Legend Nadal Confirms Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rafael Nadal, the 22-time Grand Slam champion, will retire from tennis at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old will make his final appearance for Spain at November\u2019s Davis Cup Finals in Malaga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a video message released on Thursday, Nadal said: &#8220;I am here to let you know I am retiring from professional tennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The reality is that it has been some difficult years, the last two especially.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I have been able to play without limitations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Rafael Nadal, the 22-time Grand Slam champion, will retire from tennis at the end of this season. The 38-year-old will make his final appearance for Spain at November\u2019s Davis Cup Finals in Malaga. In a video message released on Thursday, Nadal said: &#8220;I am here to let you know I am retiring from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}