{"id":76911,"date":"2025-08-19T03:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76911\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T03:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:51:02","slug":"kyle-edmund-former-british-number-one-announces-retirement-from-tennis-aged-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76911\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Edmund: Former British number one announces retirement from tennis, aged 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former British number one Kyle Edmund said &#8220;my body is telling me it&#8217;s finally reached the end point&#8221; as he announced his retirement from tennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edmund had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/42786224\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">memorable run<\/a> to the Australian Open semi-finals in 2018 and was as high as 14 in the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old is only the second British man after Sir Andy Murray to reach the last four at Melbourne in the Open era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His later career was hampered by injuries, with Edmund undergoing three knee surgeries in the past five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Looking back I can say I tried my absolute best in my career and my hardest to get back to where I was,&#8221; Edmund said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The last five years have taken a toll with three surgeries and other injuries such as wrist, ab, hip and foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are no regrets whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British number one Kyle Edmund said &#8220;my body is telling me it&#8217;s finally reached the end point&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-76911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}