{"id":129559,"date":"2019-08-06T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=129559"},"modified":"2019-08-06T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:53:54","slug":"victor-estrella-to-retire-from-competing-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/06\/victor-estrella-to-retire-from-competing-in-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Estrella to retire from competing in tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Victor-Estrella-Burgos-Wikipedia-e1565109176923.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129562\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Veteran Dominican tennis player V\u00edctor Estrella has officially announced his retirement. He is participating in his fifth participation in the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru this week. The Santiago city native made the announcement via his Instagram account. He said his last competition will be at the Santo Domingo Open to take place in October 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estrella said that he has been an athlete blessed by God, with many highs and lows. He thanked his supporters, who had encouraged him to keep playing for so many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estrella lost to the favorite for the gold medal, Roberto Quiroz from Ecuador at the Pan American Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic as of Monday, 5 August 2019 was in 10th place of 23 countries that have won medals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/victor-estrella-anuncia-su-retiro-de-las-canchas-PA13647383\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 August 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Dominican tennis player V\u00edctor Estrella has officially announced his retirement. He is participating in his fifth participation in the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru this week. The Santiago city native made the announcement via his Instagram account. He said his last competition will be at the Santo Domingo Open to take place in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/06\/victor-estrella-to-retire-from-competing-in-tennis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129563,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129559\/revisions\/129563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}