{"id":8161,"date":"2013-11-18T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/baltacha-retires-from-tennis\/"},"modified":"2013-11-18T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:47:00","slug":"baltacha-retires-from-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/baltacha-retires-from-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltacha retires from tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former top women&#8217;s British tennis player Elena Baltacha has decided to retire.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Ukrainian-born player, who turned pro in 1997 and never reached a WTA-level final, reached the third round at Wimbledon in 2002 and at the 2005 and 2010 Australian Opens. She appeared in only four tour events this year, going 2-4, including an opening-round loss at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Baltacha reached a career-high ranking of No. 49 in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former top women&#8217;s British tennis player Elena Baltacha has decided to retire. The 30-year-old Ukrainian-born player, who turned pro in 1997 and never reached a WTA-level final, reached the third round at Wimbledon in 2002 and at the 2005 and 2010 Australian Opens. She appeared in only four tour events this [&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-8161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161","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=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}