LONDON \u2014 Former British No. 1 tennis player Kyle Edmund announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 30 on Monday.<\/p>\n
Edmund won two ATP titles and, in 2018, became only the second British man after Andy Murray to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
He was part of the Britain team that won the Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years, and also represented his country at the 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
Edmund\u2019s ascent into the world\u2019s top 50 corresponded with a knee injury that required three operations and kept him off the tour for almost two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last five years have taken a toll with three surgeries and other injuries (and) my body is telling me it\u2019s finally reached the end point,\u201d Edmund said in a statement issued by the Lawn Tennis Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking back I can say I tried my absolute best in my career and my hardest to get back to where I was. There are no regrets whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n
A defeat in the Nottingham Challenger final to Jack Pinnington Jones last month proved to be his last match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Former British No. 1 tennis player Kyle Edmund announced his retirement from the sport at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-78678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678","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=78678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}