{"id":44108,"date":"2021-03-12T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T21:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44108"},"modified":"2021-03-12T23:01:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:01:24","slug":"federer-withdraws-from-next-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44108","title":{"rendered":"Federer withdraws from next tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/roger-federer\" title=\"Roger Federer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger Federer<\/a> has pulled out of an upcoming tennis tournament in Dubai after returning to action following a 13-month injury layoff.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-time grand slam champion hadn&#x27;t played competitively in over a year after undergoing two knee surgeries in 2020 but <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/roger-federer-comeback-qatar-open-beats-dan-evans\/e13f57c2-18bc-4744-9c92-86ee692fe461\" title=\"won his comeback match against Dan Evans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won his comeback match against Dan Evans<\/a> at the Qatar Open on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old was then <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/tennis-news-roger-federer-loses-qatar-open-quarter-final\/4aa7889d-d626-44a3-a674-437a2fe1bcdd\" title=\"beaten by Georgia&#x27;s Nikoloz Basilashvili\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beaten by Georgia&#x27;s Nikoloz Basilashvili<\/a> &#8212; 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 &#8212; in the quarterfinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Federer was due to continue his comeback at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on March 14 but says he&#x27;s withdrawn to focus on training.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7db286de-6b27-455f-94ac-3ee81d63b8ac\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7db286de-6b27-455f-94ac-3ee81d63b8ac\" alt=\"Roger Federer\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s been great to be back on the [ATP Tour], loved every minute playing in Doha once again,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer\/status\/1370147376640446472\" title=\"he wrote on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he wrote on Twitter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;A big thank you to the best and loyal team that helped me get here.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve decided it&#x27;s best to go back to training and as a result, I&#x27;ve decided to withdraw from Dubai next week.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Federer had previously decided not to defend his title at the Miami Open which is due to start on March 22.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Roger Federer has pulled out of an upcoming tennis tournament in Dubai after returning to action following a 13-month injury layoff. The 20-time grand slam <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44108\" title=\"Federer withdraws from next tournament\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44110,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44108\/revisions\/44110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}