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Milos Raonic<\/a> has announced his retirement from professional tennis<\/a> at the age of 35. <\/p>\n The big-serving Canadian, who lost to Andy Murray<\/a> in the Wimbledon<\/a> final in 2016, has not played a competitive match since the 2024 Olympics<\/a> in Paris, when he lost to Germany\u2019s Dominik Koepfer. <\/p>\n Raonic was blighted by injuries in the decade since that run at SW19 and a shoulder issue sidelined him over the last 18 months. On Sunday, Raonic confirmed he has decided to call it a day. <\/p>\n “The time has come, I am retiring from tennis,” Raonic said on social media. “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.<\/p>\n “Tennis has been my love and obsession for most of my life.<\/p>\n “I have been the luckiest person to get to live out and fulfil 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 eight-year-old by complete luck. <\/p>\n “Somehow, this became my entire obsession and childhood. and then became my profession and life.”<\/p>\n Raonic won eight tour titles and reached a career-high of No 3 in the world. He also reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open in 2016, his standout season on tour. <\/p>\n “What’s next? I won’t be slowing down,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n \u201cThere is so much more life to live, and I am as motivated and hungry as I was in 2011, when I broke through on tour. I will put the same effort and intensity into the next thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-404457","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\/404457","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=404457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}