{"id":438199,"date":"2023-06-20T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438199"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:02:48","slug":"anett-kontaveit-will-retire-after-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anett-kontaveit-will-retire-after-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Anett Kontaveit will retire after Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-world number 2 Anett Kontaveit will call it a career after Wimbledon because of back problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thank you for an amazing 13-year career on the Hologic WTA Tour, Anett \ud83d\udc9c<\/p>\n<p>Former World No.2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnettKontaveit_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AnettKontaveit_<\/a> has announced she will say goodbye to professional tennis at Wimbledon next month.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThankYouAnett?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ThankYouAnett<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y7O1Jlq2fv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Y7O1Jlq2fv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1671066679273562112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Estonian tennis player (27) has lumbar disc degeneration and shared that because of that, she can\u2019t train at full speed and be competitive in the WTA tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I wanna share with the tennis world that I\u2019m ending my career as a tennis player,\u201d Anett uploads on Instagram. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to continue at the highest level in such an ambitious sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her best achievement in a Grand Slam was advancing to the Australian Open \u00bc finals in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Slam on the grass in London will begin on July 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-world number 2 Anett Kontaveit will call it a career after Wimbledon because of back problems. Thank you for an amazing 13-year career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438200,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18069,17072],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[19996,18071,6273],"acf":{"announce":"She will end her career because of an injury.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438199"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438199"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}