OTTAWA, Ontario — Former top-three participant Milos Raonic introduced on Monday his retirement from skilled tennis.
“The time has come, I’m retiring from tennis,” the 35-year-old Canadian mentioned on X. “This can be a second you recognize will come in the future, however by some means you by no means really feel prepared for it. That is as prepared as I’ll ever be. Tennis has been my love and obsession for many of my life,” Raonic mentioned.
Large-serving Raonic has received eight ATP titles since grew to become knowledgeable in 2011. In 2016, he beat Roger Federer 6-3 6-7 (3), 4-6 7-5 6-3 within the Wimbledon semifinal to develop into the primary Canadian man to succeed in a Grand Slam ultimate. On this most profitable yr of his profession, he additionally reached the semifinals of the Australian Open and certified for the ATP Finals to complete the yr on the career-high World No. 3.
“I’ve been the luckiest individual to get to stay out and fulfill my desires,” he mentioned. “I obtained to indicate up day-after-day and deal with simply getting higher, seeing the place that can take me, and taking part in a sport I used to be launched to at 8 years outdated by full luck. One way or the other, this grew to become my whole obsession and childhood, after which grew to become my career and life.”
His final profession sport was a 7-6 (2), 6-7 (5), 6-7 (1) defeat to Dominik Koepfer on the first spherical of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
