{"id":407519,"date":"2026-01-12T03:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407519\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:49:15","slug":"milos-raonic-announces-retirement-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407519\/","title":{"rendered":"Milos Raonic announces retirement | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Milos Raonic<br \/>\n    Milos Raonic announces retirement<\/p>\n<p>Canadian won 8 tour-level titles and reached No. 3 in the PIF ATP Rankings<\/p>\n<p>January 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/milos-raonic-retirement-2026-image.jpg\" alt=\"Milos Raonic at the 2024 Australian Open.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Staples\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        Milos Raonic at the 2024 Australian Open.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/milos-raonic\/r975\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milos Raonic<\/a> announced his retirement on social media Monday following an illustrious career in which he reached No. 3 in the PIF ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time has come, I am retiring from tennis. This is a moment you know will come one day, but somehow you never feel ready for it. This is as ready as I will ever be. Tennis has been my love and obsession for most of my life,&#8221; the 35-year-old wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been the luckiest person to get to live out and fulfill my dreams. I got to show up every day and focus on just getting better, seeing where that will take me, and playing a game I was introduced to at 8 years old by complete luck. Somehow, this became my entire obsession and childhood, and then became my profession and life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The time has come, I am retiring from tennis. This is a moment you know will come one day, but somehow you never feel ready for it. This is as ready as I will ever be. Tennis has been my love and obsession for most of my life. <\/p>\n<p>I have been the luckiest person to get to live out\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/milos-raonic\/r975\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milos Raonic<\/a> (@milosraonic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/milosraonic\/status\/2010491463524638726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian star won eight tour-level titles during his career. His best season came in 2016, when he reached the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/wimbledon\/540\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a> final after defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/roger-federer\/f324\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a> in the semi-finals. That year, he also advanced to the semi-finals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/archive\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/2025\/results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>, reached the Indian Wells final and finished the year ranked at a career-high No. 3.<\/p>\n<p>He last competed at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, where he lost 7-6(2), 6-7(5), 6-7(1) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/dominik-koepfer\/ke73\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominik Koepfer<\/a> in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milos Raonic Milos Raonic announces retirement Canadian won 8 tour-level titles and reached No. 3 in the PIF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-407519","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\/407519","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=407519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}