{"id":12458,"date":"2025-03-28T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rafael-nadal-confirms-retirement-from-tennis-aged-38-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:24:06","slug":"rafael-nadal-confirms-retirement-from-tennis-aged-38-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rafael-nadal-confirms-retirement-from-tennis-aged-38-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal confirms retirement from tennis aged 38 | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ADilqfnrYk?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Rafael Nadal, the 22-time Grand Slam champion, will retire from tennis at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old will represent Spain in his final appearance at next month&#8217;s Davis Cup Finals in Malaga.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal has barely played over the past two seasons because of injuries and suggested last year he could retire at the end of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal retires as the second-most successful men&#8217;s singles player of all time, behind only long-time rival Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#RafaelNadal #Tennis #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ADilqfnrYk\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal, the 22-time Grand Slam champion, will retire from tennis at the end of this season. The 38-year-old will represent Spain in his final appearance at next month&#8217;s Davis Cup Finals in Malaga. Nadal has barely played over the past two seasons because of injuries and suggested last year he could retire at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12460,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions\/12460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}