{"id":3588,"date":"2013-08-26T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:04:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:04:46","slug":"james-blake-announces-retirement-at-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/james-blake-announces-retirement-at-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"James Blake Announces Retirement at US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former World No. 4 James Blake announced his retirement today, at a press conference on the first day of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No real surprise here. This is my last tournament. I always wanted to end my career at the U.S. Open,&#8221; the 33-year-old American told reporters, adding, &#8220;Despite the tears, I&#8217;m actually really happy about this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he would like to do next, Blake mentioned either serving as captain of the US Davis Cup team, or going into broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=898\"><strong>Click here to discuss James Blake&#8217;s retirement in our discussion forum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Credits: Cover Photo: Jos\u00e9 Goul\u00e3o (Creative Commons License)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former World No. 4 James Blake announced his retirement today, at a press conference on the first day of the US Open. &#8220;No real surprise here. This is my last tournament. I always wanted to end my career at the U.S. Open,&#8221; the 33-year-old American told reporters, adding, &#8220;Despite the tears, I&#8217;m actually really happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[148,287],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-james-blake","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}