{"id":408288,"date":"2026-01-12T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408288\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:43:09","slug":"canadas-former-world-no-3-milos-raonic-retires-from-professional-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408288\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s former world No.3 Milos Raonic retires from professional tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for his powerful serve, the two-time Olympian won eight ATP Tour titles and enjoyed one of his most successful seasons in 2016. That year, he reached the Wimbledon final after defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/roger-federer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a> in the semi-finals before losing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/andy-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Murray<\/a>, and also made the semi-finals of the Australian Open. He finished the season ranked third in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Born in what is now Montenegro, Raonic moved to Canada as a child and went on to represent the country throughout his career. He thanked fans, coaches, opponents and his family, and said of what comes next: \u201cI won\u2019t be slowing down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best known for his powerful serve, the two-time Olympian won eight ATP Tour titles and enjoyed one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-408288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}