{"id":358991,"date":"2025-12-19T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358991\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:35:07","slug":"stan-wawrinka-says-2026-will-be-final-chapter-of-playing-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358991\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Wawrinka says 2026 will be &#8216;final chapter&#8217; of playing career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time major winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=264\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stan Wawrinka<\/a> says 2026 will be his last year on tour.<\/p>\n<p>Since Wawrinka turned pro in 2002, the Swiss has won 16 tour singles titles. He beat the No. 1-ranked player in the finals of the 2014 Australian Open (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=261\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a>), 2015 French Open (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>) and 2016 U.S. Open (Djokovic).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One last push,&#8221; Wawrinka wrote on social media on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every book needs an ending. It&#8217;s time to write the final chapter of my career as a professional tennis player. 2026 will be my last year on tour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wawrinka and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=425\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a> won the 2008 Beijing Olympics doubles gold medal and helped Switzerland win its only Davis Cup in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of only three players to beat Nadal, Djokovic, Federer and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=235\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Murray<\/a> at the Grand Slams.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old claimed his last singles trophy in 2017. He starts his final season in Perth at the United Cup from Jan. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time major winner Stan Wawrinka says 2026 will be his last year on tour. Since Wawrinka turned pro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-358991","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\/358991","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=358991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}