{"id":75283,"date":"2019-01-11T02:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T01:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/11\/andy-murray-announces-impending-retirement-from-tennis-live\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T02:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T01:51:57","slug":"andy-murray-announces-impending-retirement-from-tennis-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=75283","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray announces impending retirement from tennis \u2013\u00a0live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murray reveals decision at emotional press conferenceFormer world No 1 could retire after Australian OpenEmail Niall or tweet @niallmcveigh with your thoughts 1.51am GMT Murray is known off-court for never being short of a quote or two; you can be sure the punditry offers will be pouring in once he finally bids farewell to tennis. Here are some of his most memorable lines:\u201cI don\u2019t play in any tournaments to come second best.\u201d 1.44am GMT It wasn\u2019t so long ago that Murray was on top of the world \u2013 finally shaking his long-time rival, Novak Djokovic, from the summit of the world rankings after a stellar 2016. Both men pushed their bodies to the limit that season and have suffered since \u2013 but while Djokovic has returned to the pinnacle of the game, Murray has been unable to do the same. Here\u2019s Kevin Mitchell with a nice piece from that era, which reminds us why Murray is so loved at home and around the world: Related: The core of Andy Murray\u2019s genius is there is nothing fake on court or off it | Kevin Mitchell Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2019\/jan\/11\/andy-murray-announces-impending-retirement-from-tennis-live\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Murray announces impending retirement from tennis \u2013\u00a0live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murray reveals decision at emotional press conferenceFormer world No 1 could retire after Australian OpenEmail Niall or tweet @niallmcveigh with your thoughts 1.51am GMT Murray is known off-court for never being short of a quote or two; you can be sure the punditry offers will be pouring in once he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}