{"id":1209020,"date":"2022-09-22T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/roger-federer-to-bow-out-on-friday-in-laver-cup-doubles\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:20:14","slug":"roger-federer-to-bow-out-on-friday-in-laver-cup-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/roger-federer-to-bow-out-on-friday-in-laver-cup-doubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer to bow out on Friday in Laver Cup doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3457490-70534968-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Roger Federer\" title=\"Roger Federer\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Federer <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Roger Federer has confirmed the final match of his illustrious career will be in the doubles at the Laver Cup in London on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-time Grand Slam winner said last week he would retire at the team event, which starts at the 02 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He has struggled with a knee problem and does not feel able to play singles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an event I don\u2019t want to mess with, but I know my limitations,\u201d said the 41-year-old Swiss, who hopes to pair up with old rival Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Matteo Berrettini, the first alternate for the team tournament, will then take Federer\u2019s place over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Federer\u2019s last competitive match was a defeat by Hubert Hurkacz in last year\u2019s Wimbledon quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Europe take on a world team in the three-day Laver Cup, where the six players from each side are usually required to play at least one singles match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked [Europe captain] Bjorn [Borg] if I could play one doubles, on Friday night, then Matteo comes in,\u201d Federer told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m nervous, I haven\u2019t played in so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"I3B7pXm1cYg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premtobre Agokansie on Adom TV (21-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I3B7pXm1cYg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer Roger Federer has confirmed the final match of his illustrious career will be in the doubles at the Laver Cup in London on Friday night. The 20-time Grand Slam winner said last week he would retire at the team event, which starts at the 02 on Friday. He has struggled with a knee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[16789,262,22753,20344,6842,25764,20345],"class_list":["post-1209020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bow","tag-cup","tag-doubles","tag-federer","tag-friday","tag-laver","tag-roger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}