{"id":4395,"date":"2013-09-19T22:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T22:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:03:53","slug":"andy-murray-to-undergo-season-ending-back-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/andy-murray-to-undergo-season-ending-back-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray to Undergo Season-Ending Back Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning Wimbledon champion\u00a0Andy Murray will undergo back surgery on Monday for a long-standing problem, according to the BBC. He is unlikely to resume play for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot has suffered from a disc problem for two years, which affects a nerve in his lower back. It is the same injury which prompted his withdrawal from Roland Garros\u00a0in May.<\/p>\n<p>Murray had been scheduled to play three tournaments in Asia this fall, including the Shanghai Masters, before going to the Paris Masters and the World Tour Finals in London.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=1100\"><strong>Click here to discuss Murray&#8217;s back surgery in our discussion forum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: Cover Photo: Marianne Bevis (Creative Commons License)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning Wimbledon champion\u00a0Andy Murray will undergo back surgery on Monday for a long-standing problem, according to the BBC. He is unlikely to resume play for the rest of the season. The Scot has suffered from a disc problem for two years, which affects a nerve in his lower back. It is the same injury which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,380],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-andy-murray","tag-back-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}