{"id":31,"date":"2017-07-26T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themes.tielabs.com\/sahifa5\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-07-26T18:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:11:26","slug":"djokovic-to-miss-rest-of-the-season-with-elbow-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/djokovic-to-miss-rest-of-the-season-with-elbow-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic to miss rest of the season with elbow injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\"38\">BELGRADE (Reuters) &#8211; Twelve-times grand slam champion Novak Djokovic will miss the rest of the tennis season to recover from an elbow injury, the Serbian said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"39\">The 30-year-old posted a video statement on Facebook in which he said he had decided to let heal the injury which caused him to retire during his Wimbledon quarter-final against Czech Tomas Berdych earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"40\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve made a decision to not play any competitions or tournaments for the rest of the 2017 season,&#8221; Djokovic, down at number four in the world rankings for the first time since 2009, said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a decision that had to be made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"41\">Djokovic then told a news conference he had decided to take six months off after consulting doctors and specialists in Serbia and abroad.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"42\">&#8220;I have been dragging this injury for the past 18 months and it has escalated in the last month or two,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"43\">&#8220;It became very painful at Wimbledon, where unfortunately I had to retire against Berdych.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELGRADE (Reuters) &#8211; Twelve-times grand slam champion Novak Djokovic will miss the rest of the tennis season to recover from an elbow injury, the Serbian said on Wednesday. The 30-year-old posted a video statement on Facebook in which he said he had decided to let heal the injury which caused him to retire during his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[81,82],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-tennis-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abyadaswad.com\/_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}