{"id":360109,"date":"2025-12-20T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360109\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:00:22","slug":"tennis-news-2025-2014-australian-open-champion-stan-wawrinka-reveals-retirement-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360109\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis news 2025 | 2014 Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka reveals retirement plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stan Wawrinka<\/a> has announced that he will hang up the racquet at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

The three-time grand slam champion shared his decision to leave the sport he first started playing 32 years ago on X, stating it was time to start writing his “final chapter”.<\/p>\n

A former world No.3, Wawrinka has faced some of the game’s greatest in major finals, including Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n

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In fact, the 40-year-old has defeated the pair in major finals including the Australian Open<\/a> in 2014, where he faced Nadal, and 2015 French Open, battling Djokovic.<\/p>\n

\"Stan<\/p>\n

Stan Wawrinka waves to the crowd.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Wawrinka was one of the few players who did manage to achieve that feat during the time period where the ‘Big Three’ were the most dominant.<\/p>\n

“One last push,” Wawrinka wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n

“Every book needs an ending. It’s time to write the final chapter of my career as a professional tennis player. 2026 will be my last year on tour.<\/p>\n

“I’ve enjoyed every part of what tennis has given me, especially the emotions I feel playing in front of you.”<\/p>\n

Wawrinka turned pro in 2022 and has won a total of 16 tour-level trophies throughout his career. Of the active players, he has the the fourth most amount of tour wins.<\/p>\n

The Swiss star has also won an Olympic gold medal when he teamed up with Roger Federer in the doubles event in Beijing in 2008.<\/p>\n

He also played a vital role in Switzerland’s 2014 Davis Cup victory.<\/p>\n

\"Stan<\/p>\n

Stan Wawrinka\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

It has been almost 10 years since Wawrinka last won a title, but that is not enough to deter his mentality in his final year in the sport.<\/p>\n

“I still want to push my limits and finish this journey on the best note possible,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I still have dreams in this sport. I’m looking forward to seeing you one more time, all around the world. One last push.”<\/p>\n

For now, he will set his sites on performing well in Australia, joining Switzerland for their United Cup campaign in Perth on January 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stan Wawrinka has announced that he will hang up the racquet at the end of 2026. The three-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-360109","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\/360109","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=360109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}