{"id":339505,"date":"2025-12-10T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339505\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:43:09","slug":"ricardas-berankis-announces-retirement-these-experiences-have-shaped-me-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339505\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardas Berankis announces retirement: &#8216;These experiences have shaped me&#8217; | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Ricardas Berankis<br \/>\n    Berankis announces retirement: &#8216;These experiences have shaped me&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Former junior World No. 1 is the also the highest-ranked Lithuanian player in history<\/p>\n<p>December 10, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/berankis-retirement-december-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardas Berankis reached a career-high No. 50 in the PIF ATP Rankings. \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tata Open Maharashtra<\/p>\n<p>        Ricardas Berankis reached a career-high No. 50 in the PIF ATP Rankings.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/ricardas-berankis\/be90\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricardas Berankis<\/a>, the highest-ranked Lithuanian player in history, announced his retirement from professional tennis on Tuesday via a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is one of those days that seems like it will never come, but when it does, it touches me very sensitively and deeply,\u201d wrote the 35-year-old. \u201cI want to announce that I have made one of the most difficult decisions of my life \u2013 to end my professional tennis career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berankis reached a career-high No. 50 in the PIF ATP Rankings in 2016 and finished his career as a two-time finalist on the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty-five years is not just a number. It is a life path, a childhood dream of reaching the heights of tennis that I have been following,\u201d Berankis continued. \u201cThis stage passed in a moment, but at the same time it left an unimaginable amount of excitement, struggle, victories, painful experiences, lasting memories, and acquaintances that will accompany me for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berankis won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/us-open\/560\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> boys\u2019 title and the Orange Bowl Tennis Championships in 2007 \u2014 the same year that he rose to No. 1 in the ITF Junior World Rankings. Along with reaching two ATP Tour finals in Los Angeles in 2012 and Moscow in 2017, he also captured a tour-level doubles title in Houston in 2015 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/teymuraz-gabashvili\/g681\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teymuraz Gabashvili<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/apps?utm_source=atp&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=app_banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/-\/media\/&#10;9333ed00493246e6a2ad692fa18710b7.ashx\" alt=\"The Official App Of Tennis | Download ATP WTA Live App\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were ups. There were downs. These experiences have shaped me as an athlete and as a person,\u201d Berankis wrote. \u201cEvery story has its beginning and its end\u2026 Today I am closing one of the most important chapters of my life, and I do so with peace and gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank everyone who was there for me \u2013 my family, friends, coaches, teammates, sponsors, partners, fans, and everyone who believed in me, supported me, encouraged me, and helped me get back up when things were the hardest. My faith and your support were my driving force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricardas Berankis Berankis announces retirement: &#8216;These experiences have shaped me&#8217; Former junior World No. 1 is the also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-339505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339505","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=339505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}