{"id":370880,"date":"2025-12-26T22:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370880\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:28:25","slug":"tennis-star-planning-to-quit-sport-and-work-in-a-bank-as-retirement-date-set-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370880\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis star planning to quit sport and work in a bank as retirement date set | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gael Monfils<\/a> will officially walk away from the tennis tour next year. The former world No. 6 turned professional in 2004 and has been entertaining crowds with his trickshots and showmanship ever since, but he will retire on home soil at the Paris Masters at the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Monfils announced his retirement well in advance<\/a>, sharing the news at the beginning of October. While he still has plenty of tennis left to play before his farewell in the La Defense Arena, the 39-year-old already knows exactly what he wants to do next – and he\u2019ll be going down a completely different career path.<\/a><\/p>\n

The current world No. 68 is set to swap his tennis racket for a suit, as he dreams of working in a bank. Speaking exclusively to Express Sport last year, Monfils revealed that his post-tennis plans were already in place – and he\u2019s even completed work experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to work in a financial way. I want to work in a bank. I\u2019ve done some internship when I was out of the court,\u201d the 13-time title winner explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been a bit curious about that side and then I\u2019ve been reading a lot and I tried it out a little bit and then I had an opportunity to work a little bit in a private bank. I saw very curious people, very interesting people who gave me this passion and I think I really want to try it after my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monfils worked in different sectors and sat exams during his internship, giving himself the opportunity to walk straight into finance once he\u2019s played his final match. The French star added: \u201cIt was information, to understand how everything works.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the system of the private banking, from also the commercial part, how to talk to clients, from the wealth management so you know about the economy and all the other stuff, and it was quite interesting. I had some homework to do, and then I passed some exams. It was very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Monfils had no idea when he would eventually say goodbye to tennis and head into the world of banking. But he\u2019s now set a date. The former world No. 6 announced the news in an emotional social media post.<\/p>\n

\u201cI held a racket in my hands for the first time at two and a half, and began playing professionally at 18. Now, after celebrating my 39th birthday just a month ago, I\u2019d like to share that the year ahead will be my last as a professional tennis player,\u201d Monfils wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you love something so much, it never feels like a good time to say goodbye. But 40 will be the right time for me. Of course, winning one more title before I\u2019m done would be truly incredible. Truthfully though, my only real goal for the year ahead is simple: To enjoy every minute, and to play each match like it\u2019s my last.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gael Monfils will officially walk away from the tennis tour next year. The former world No. 6 turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,13880,158659,158658,158657,82,593,621],"class_list":{"0":"post-370880","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-gael-monfils","11":"tag-gael-monfils-bank","12":"tag-gael-monfils-retire","13":"tag-gael-monfils-retirement","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-tennis-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370880","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=370880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}