{"id":283857,"date":"2025-11-15T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283857\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:09:09","slug":"nitto-atp-finals-2025-retirement-ceremony-nitto-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283857\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitto ATP Finals 2025 Retirement Ceremony | Nitto ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Players\u2019 pro careers celebrated in on-court ceremony in Turin \n <\/p>\n

What better place to celebrate the end of a stellar career than at the Nitto ATP Finals? <\/p>\n

Eight recently retired ATP Tour stars did just that on Friday in Turin, where ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi welcomed Juan Sebastian Cabal, Kyle Edmund, Robert Farah, Wesley Koolhof, Matwe Middelkoop, Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, Albert Ramos-Vinolas and Diego Schwartzman with a speech in the players’ lounge at the prestigious season finale. <\/p>\n

The former No. 8 in the PIF ATP Rankings Schwartzman, who played his final match on home soil in Buenos Aires in February, was delighted to be invited back to an event where he competed in 2020. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to come back to a tournament, especially the ATP Finals and to be able to share it with someone from your family,\u201d Schwartzman told ATPTour.com. \u201cIn my case, my mum is here. When I played the [Nitto ATP Finals], she couldn\u2019t come because it was the pandemic and players\u2019 invites were very limited. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy mum\u2019s a tennis fan, so we\u2019ll enjoy a couple of days watching tennis and I\u2019m getting a nice recognition. It\u2019s fun and a good initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nDiego Schwartzman (centre) with Fernando Sanchez, Senior Vice President of ATP Player Relations, and ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi. Photo Credit: Andrew Eichenholz\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n

The retired players also later participated in an on-court ceremony during Friday\u2019s night session at Inalpi Arena, shortly before the singles clash between Alexander Zverev and Felix Auger-Aliassime. Among them was Kyle Edmund, the former World No. 14 who won two ATP 250 titles and reached the semi-finals at the 2018 Australian Open before his career was disrupted by a series of injuries. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve realised that when you play, you don\u2019t think too much about your career, but since retiring you have a lot more time at home, and you can appreciate your career a lot more,\u201d said the 30-year-old Briton. \u201cOn Tour, but even on juniors and the journey, it\u2019s nice to reflect. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good that the ATP reached out and said they wanted to celebrate my career with this ceremony\u2026 It\u2019s a really nice touch and you remember these sorts of things. Since I retired, I haven\u2019t been at an event, so it\u2019s nice to come to the Finals. My parents are as well which is nice, because they were with me throughout my career.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\nKyle Edmund with his parents Steven and Denise at Inalpi Arena. Photo Credit: Andrew Eichenholz\/ATP Tour <\/p>\n

Former World No. 17 and four-time ATP Tour champion Ramos-Vinolas said: \u201cThe event is really amazing, I\u2019m so happy to be here, to receive a small tribute and to come here with my family and spend a few more relaxed days at a tennis tournament.\u201d <\/p>\n

Singles stars Schwartzman, Edmund and Ramos-Vinolas were joined in the ceremony by a quintet of elite doubles stars. They included three former No. 1s in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings: Juan Sebastian Cabal, Robert Farah and Wesley Koolhof. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really amazing, of course, it was a very beautiful ceremony,\u201d said Cabal. \u201cWe\u2019ve experienced it as players, with other athletes, and we know that it\u2019s a recognition for what you gave during your career. You look back and you see everything you achieved, and it\u2019s really nice to remember it. And, of course, for them to do it for you at the best tournament of the year is really great.\u201d <\/p>\n

Farah said: \u201cHaving the recognition here at the ATP Finals makes it even more special. This tournament is always one that we appreciate so much, it gives you that feeling of exclusivity and of quality. It\u2019s really nice for them to do this here and it reminds you of many things you experienced at this tournament. Now we\u2019re back here in a different situation, enjoying it and watching in a much more relaxed way. It\u2019s really fun.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\nJuan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah on Friday at the Nitto ATP Finals. Photo Credit: Andrew Eichenholz\/ATP Tour <\/p>\n

The 2020 Nitto ATP Finals champion Koolhof added: \u201cI think it\u2019s a very nice initiative from the ATP and they do it well. I had my goodbye It\u2019s nice to be back. It\u2019s one of the most prestigious tournaments of the year, so it\u2019s nice to be back here for the fourth year in a row, even though I\u2019m not playing. It\u2019s nice to see all the people again and celebrate what you\u2019ve achieved.\u201d <\/p>\n

Koolhof won the first three of his 21 tour-level titles with Middelkoop, who played the last match of his pro career in Umag in July. <\/p>\n

\u201cI said I want to have my parents here, because they were there at the start and I wanted to give them opportunity to see me at the end of my tennis career,\u201d said Middelkoop. \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing feeling. I\u2019m very proud of what I accomplished, and to be in a group of legends here \u2014 which they are \u2014 it says a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n

Quereshi made his final tour-level appearance in a Davis Cup tie in Paraguay in September. The Pakistani won 18 tour-level doubles crowns, including two ATP Masters 1000 titles. <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously it\u2019s an amazing feeling [to be here],\u201d said the former Top 10 star, who is one of only four men to win the ATP\u2019s Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award twice. \u201cGrowing up as a Pakistani, a young kid, I never thought I would have such a long career to start with. Playing with the top guys, at the top tournaments, and qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals also four times. It\u2019s been amazing, and this is like a full circle. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents are here, my wife, my son and daughter are here. It\u2019s a lot of things to digest but I feel proud in the end as well for having an amazing career. The ATP was like a second family to me. I spent more time in these 25 years with people from the ATP and the staff, the players, the physios, the trainers and the line umpires, than my own family. I\u2019ve had some ups, I\u2019ve had some downs, but overall, I think it was a mutual friendship and trust that I gathered the most.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Players\u2019 pro careers celebrated in on-court ceremony in Turin What better place to celebrate the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-283857","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-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283857","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=283857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}