{"id":17480,"date":"2022-09-15T22:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=245987"},"modified":"2022-09-15T22:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:12:49","slug":"rafael-nadal-writes-a-heartfelt-letter-for-roger-federer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-writes-a-heartfelt-letter-for-roger-federer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal writes a heartfelt letter for Roger Federer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss legend Roger Federer, through a post on his official social media account, announced his retirement from his professional career. The 20-time Grand Slam champion wrote that the upcoming Laver Cup next week in London will be his last official tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p>While everyone was expecting for his comeback, the 41-year-old who dominated the tennis world for 2 decades announced his retirement. This news shocked the sports fraternity. Meanwhile, Federer\u2019s rival and friend Rafael Nadal writes a heartfelt letter wishing Swiss a happy retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal on his social media stated that the announcement by Federer hit the Spaniard \u201cpersonally\u201d and that he wished the say would have never come when Federer stopped playing tennis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear Roger,my friend and rival. <br \/>I wish this day would have never come. It\u2019s a sad day for me personally and for sports around the world.<br \/>It\u2019s been a pleasure but also an honor and privilege to share all these years with you, living so many amazing moments on and off the court \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rafa Nadal (@RafaelNadal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RafaelNadal\/status\/1570442868057313285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Federer has not played a single official tennis match since his quarterfinal exit from the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. He will be seen with his rival Nadal at the Laver Cup next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Laver Cup in London will be Federer\u2019s last professional tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3034,336,331,250],"class_list":["post-17480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-laver-cup","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}