{"id":182138,"date":"2025-10-01T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182138\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:57:08","slug":"monfils-to-retire-from-tennis-after-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182138\/","title":{"rendered":"Monfils to retire from tennis after 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gael Monfils has announced he will retire from tennis after the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Monfils is a two-time grand slam semi-finalist, making the last four at the French Open in 2008 and the US Open in 2016 but losing those matches to Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman reached a career-high ATP Ranking of sixth in 2016 and has won 13 Tour-level titles, with the first coming in 2005 and the most recent at the Auckland Open this\u00a0January.<\/p>\n<p>But the 39-year-old, who exited the last three grand slams before the third round, intends to hang up his racket after one final full season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a racket in my hands for the first time at two and a half, and began playing professionally at 18,&#8221; he wrote on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve got something to share with you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pBGh58O6pg\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pBGh58O6pg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gael Monfils (@Gael_Monfils) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gael_Monfils\/status\/1973266950450192901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, after celebrating my 39th birthday just a month ago, I&#8217;d like to share that the year ahead will be my last as a professional tennis player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opportunity to turn my passion into a profession is a privilege I have cherished during every match and moment of my 21-year career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though this game means the world to me, I am tremendously at peace with my decision to retire at the end of the 2026 tennis season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gael Monfils has announced he will retire from tennis after the 2026 season. Monfils is a two-time grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,715,457,82,91993,91992,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-182138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-social","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sporty","14":"tag-sportytv","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}