{"id":296257,"date":"2025-11-20T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296257\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:31:07","slug":"dennis-novak-announces-retirement-from-pro-tennis-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296257\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Novak announces retirement from pro tennis | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Retirements<br \/>\n    Dennis Novak announces retirement: &#8216;More than I could ever dream of&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The-32-year-old shares heartfelt Instagram post<\/p>\n<p>November 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dennis-novak-2025-retirement.jpg\" alt=\"Dennis Novak reached a career-high No. 85 in the PIF ATP Rankings.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Kronsteiner\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Dennis Novak reached a career-high No. 85 in the PIF ATP Rankings.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>Austrian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/dennis-novak\/db59\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Novak<\/a> announced his retirement from professional tennis this week. The 32-year-old, who reached a career-high No. 85 in 2020, shared the news <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRH3TMViItM\/?img_index=12\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHi everybody, just wanted to let you know that my professional career [has] come to an end,\u201d wrote Novak. \u201cReaching No. 85 in the world, playing 17 times in the Davis Cup for Austria and all Grand Slam main draws is more than I could ever dream of!! \ud83d\ude4f\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nNovak reached two tour-level quarter-finals in his career and earned as many Top 20 victories. His best major result was a third-round run at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/wimbledon\/540\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a> in 2018. Looking ahead to his next chapter, Novak shared a message of sincere gratitude in his retirement post.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThanks to my parents and my family for giving me the chance to go after my dream of [being] a professional tennis player and for supporting me my whole life without any doubt!!! \u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffc,\u201d he added. \u201cThanks to all my coaches all over the years for your work with me and your trust!!<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThanks to my girlfriend who had my back all over the years and never complained when I was gone for so many weeks! I love you \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2018m truly grateful and thankful for everything I could experience on this journey and for all the people I got to know all over the years and made friends for life!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retirements Dennis Novak announces retirement: &#8216;More than I could ever dream of&#8217; The-32-year-old shares heartfelt Instagram post November&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-296257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296257","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=296257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}