{"id":456174,"date":"2023-08-24T17:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456174"},"modified":"2023-08-24T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:24:24","slug":"john-isner-set-to-retire-after-us-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/john-isner-set-to-retire-after-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"John Isner set to retire after US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Isner will end his professional career after the upcoming US Open. The 38-year-old American, who has been playing since 2007, has 16 singles titles, with the one in Miami in 2018 being the most significant of his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 17 years, it&#8217;s time to say goodbye to professional tennis. The transition won&#8217;t be easy, but I&#8217;m going to spend every second with my family and that makes me happy. The US Open will be my last tournament,&#8221; Isner announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After 17+ years on the \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@atptour<\/a>\u2069, it\u2019s time to say goodbye to professional tennis. This transition won\u2019t be easy but I\u2019m looking forward to every second of it with my amazing family.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@usopen<\/a>\u2069 will be my final event. Time to lace \u2018em up one last time. \u2764\ufe0f \u2665\ufe0f \ud83d\udc9c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GyRTXGNK8G\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GyRTXGNK8G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Isner (@JohnIsner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnIsner\/status\/1694481816130928906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The American has a record 14,411 aces in his career and is still holding the record for the fastest serve &#8211; 253 km\/h. He hit it during the first round of the Davis Cup in 2016. Isner also won the longest match in history, lasting 11 hours and 5 minutes at Wimbledon in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Isner will end his professional career after the upcoming US Open. The 38-year-old American, who has been playing since 2007, has 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":456198,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17451,4051],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[21107,1891],"acf":{"announce":"The \"Ace Machine\" will call it a day after almost 17 years on the tour","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\/456174"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456208,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456174\/revisions\/456208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456174"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456174"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}