{"id":3155,"date":"2016-02-04T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/federer-has-knee-surgery-will-skip-tourneys\/"},"modified":"2016-02-04T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:00:55","slug":"federer-has-knee-surgery-will-skip-tourneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/federer-has-knee-surgery-will-skip-tourneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer has knee surgery, will skip tourneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BASEL, Switzerland \u2014<\/strong> Roger Federer has had knee surgery and will miss tournaments in Rotterdam and Dubai this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoger Federer underwent successful arthroscopic knee surgery today in Switzerland to repair a torn meniscus,\u201d a statement on his official website said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is a rare injury setback for the 34-year-old Federer, who has had relatively minor back problems in 2008 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not specify which knee is injured, though it said it happened last Friday, one day after his Australian Open semifinal loss to Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy doctors have (assured) me that the surgery was a success and with proper rehabilitation, I will be able to return to the Tour soon,\u201d Federer said.<\/p>\n<p>His next scheduled tournament is in Indian Wells, California, starting March 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologize to my friends in Rotterdam and Dubai, as I was very much looking forward to playing those events,\u201d Federer said in a statement on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The organizer of the Rotterdam tournament, former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek, said he got the news on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, receiving this information yesterday evening is a major setback for us, as it is for the fans looking forward to his presence,\u201d Krajicek said. \u201cWe hope to have Roger back next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BASEL, Switzerland \u2014 Roger Federer has had knee surgery and will miss tournaments in Rotterdam and Dubai this month. \u201cRoger Federer underwent successful arthroscopic knee surgery today in Switzerland to repair a torn meniscus,\u201d a statement on his official website said Wednesday. It is a rare injury setback for the 34-year-old Federer, who has had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}