{"id":3905,"date":"2013-08-21T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/fish-pulls-out-of-u-s-open\/"},"modified":"2013-08-21T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T11:20:00","slug":"fish-pulls-out-of-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/fish-pulls-out-of-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish pulls out of U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; Former top-10 star Mardy Fish pulled out of the U.S. Open on Wednesday due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Fish has been trying to make a comeback on tour after battling a heart condition over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Fish&#8217;s Twitter feed read, &#8220;Friends, unfortunately my health won&#8217;t allow me to compete this year at the US Open. Thank you for all your support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday in Winston-Salem, Fish retired in the third set of his second-round match against Jarkko Nieminen because of heat stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Fish has played only eight ATP matches this year, going 3-5. He will now miss all of the Grand Slam tournaments in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In March of last year after Fish lost a match in Miami, his heart started to race uncontrollably. Two months later, he underwent a cardiac catheter ablation in Los Angeles to correct faulty electrical connections in his heart, in which those spots were cauterized in order to prevent short circuiting.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota native and now Los Angeles resident climbed as high as No. 7 in the world in 2011. He&#8217;s now down to No. 173.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; Former top-10 star Mardy Fish pulled out of the U.S. Open on Wednesday due to personal reasons. The 31-year-old Fish has been trying to make a comeback on tour after battling a heart condition over the last two seasons. Fish&#8217;s Twitter feed read, &#8220;Friends, unfortunately my health won&#8217;t allow [&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-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","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=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}