{"id":8882,"date":"2014-10-16T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:52:33","slug":"nikolay-davydenko-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/nikolay-davydenko-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikolay Davydenko Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/5647966789_135cb5acc3_b-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8881\" alt=\"Nikolay Davydenko\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/5647966789_135cb5acc3_b-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/5647966789_135cb5acc3_b-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/5647966789_135cb5acc3_b-e-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/5647966789_135cb5acc3_b-e-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/5647966789_135cb5acc3_b-e-500x266.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nikolay Davydenko, the former world No. 3, announced his retirement on Thursday at a press conference at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am 33 years old. I won 21 ATP World Tour tournaments, including three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments, and the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London. I don\u2019t have any regrets about not winning a Grand Slam or not being No. 1 in the world. I was in the Top 10 for some years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, for some years now, I have been struggling with injuries. It\u2019s hard for me to talk about it. I have been thinking when to announce it. The time has come. I have my whole life to live. I officially announce my retirement from professional tennis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I decided to retire in June after Roland Garros. I felt I could not play at the level I used to play at. I practised twice a day, but I felt I couldn\u2019t achieve the result I wanted. But I was waiting for the moment when I would wake up and say to myself it was enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): mirsasha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikolay Davydenko, the former world No. 3, announced his retirement on Thursday at a press conference at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. &#8220;I am 33 years old. I won 21 ATP World Tour tournaments, including three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments, and the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London. I don\u2019t have any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,145,779],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-atp","tag-nikolay-davydenko","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","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=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}