{"id":10167,"date":"2017-11-14T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2017-11-14T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:00:15","slug":"rafael-nadal-hails-unforgettable-season-after-atp%e2%80%89finals-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rafael-nadal-hails-unforgettable-season-after-atp%e2%80%89finals-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal hails \u2018unforgettable\u2019 season after ATP\u2009Finals withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal pulled out of the season-ending ATP Finals on Monday after being hampered by a knee injury during his round-robin defeat by Belgian David Goffin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not ready to play&#8230; I fought a lot knowing it was my last match of the season,\u201d the world number one, who had also quit midway through the Paris Masters tournament two weeks ago, told reporters following his 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-4 defeat by Goffin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy commitment was to try&#8230; I\u2019ve missed this event too many times in my career,\u201d added the Spaniard who has been plagued by knee injuries throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal, who was hobbling around the court for much of the third set of his contest against Goffin, qualified for the season ending tournament for the 13th successive year but withdrew before the start on five previous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s withdrawal means the 31-year-old, who claimed the French and U.S. Open trophies this year to increase his grand slam haul to 16 titles, has yet to win the season-ending tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not enjoying it (out there today) so it was no fun to play like this. But I had an unforgettable season,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal pulled out of the season-ending ATP Finals on Monday after being hampered by a knee injury during his round-robin defeat by Belgian David Goffin. \u201cI\u2019m not ready to play&#8230; I fought a lot knowing it was my last match of the season,\u201d the world number one, who had also quit midway through the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10169,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions\/10169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}