{"id":25718,"date":"2014-11-13T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/raonic-out-ferrer-in-at-atp-finals\/"},"modified":"2014-11-13T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:20:31","slug":"raonic-out-ferrer-in-at-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/raonic-out-ferrer-in-at-atp-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonic out, Ferrer in at ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Canadian slugger Milos Raonic withdrew from the ATP World Tour Finals with a quad injury ahead of his final round-robin match Thursday versus U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh-seeded Raonic, who dropped his first two matches in the four- player Group B in straight sets, was replaced by Spanish veteran David Ferrer, the first alternate at the exclusive season-ending event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As badly as I wanted to play, you&#8217;ve got to be at the top of your game here and I couldn&#8217;t be close to that today,&#8221; Raonic said. &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t have been fair to the fans if I had played a mediocre match or had to stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Canadian slugger Milos Raonic withdrew from the ATP World Tour Finals with a quad injury ahead of his final round-robin match Thursday versus U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori. The seventh-seeded Raonic, who dropped his first two matches in the four- player Group B in straight sets, was replaced by Spanish veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25719,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25718\/revisions\/25719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}