{"id":920,"date":"2017-11-16T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.231.23.93\/?p=920"},"modified":"2017-11-16T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:13:40","slug":"rafael-withdraws-from-the-atp-world-tour-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/2017\/11\/16\/rafael-withdraws-from-the-atp-world-tour-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Withdraws from the ATP World Tour Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-401 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rafa_Nadal_Spain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rafa_Nadal_Spain.jpg 488w, https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Rafa_Nadal_Spain-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/>This week Rafael Nadal was one of the world&#8217;s best ranked eight players competing for the end of season Tour Finals at London&#8217;s O2 arena. With Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic absent, Rafael joined Roger Federer, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem, Marin Cilic, Grigor Dimitrov, and David Goffin.<\/p>\n<p>However, after losing his opening match against David Goffin, Rafael withdrew on Monday night ending his season complaining of a persistent knee injury. Now that Rafael is absent from the mix,\u00a0Roger Federer becomes the headline act at the ATP World Tour Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Federer, looking for his Tour Finals title, got off to a winning start by defeating the America Jack Sock in straight sets on the opening day. Each player plays three group matches with the top four advancing to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Rafael Nadal was one of the world&#8217;s best ranked eight players competing for the end of season Tour Finals at London&#8217;s O2 arena. With Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic absent, Rafael joined Roger Federer, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem, Marin Cilic, Grigor Dimitrov, and David Goffin. However, after losing his opening match against David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbella-tennis-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}