{"id":5607,"date":"2025-07-18T13:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5607\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:53:11","slug":"tim-van-rijthoven-announces-retirement-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5607\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim van Rijthoven announces retirement | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Retirements<br \/>\n    Van Rijthoven announces retirement: &#8216;An incredible amount of pride and gratitude&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dutchman won lone ATP title on home soil in surprise 2022 run<\/p>\n<p>July 17, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/van-rijthoven-retirement-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Tim van Rijthoven produced some of his best tennis at Wimbledon in 2022 by reaching the fourth round.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Tim van Rijthoven produced some of his best tennis at Wimbledon in 2022 by reaching the fourth round.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/tim-van-rijthoven\/v942\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim van Rijthoven<\/a> recently announced his retirement from professional tennis, sharing the news with <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DL2x7joty_E\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\">an emotional post on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Dutchman notably became one of the sport\u2019s best underdog stories in recent memory in 2022, when he won the ATP 250 in \u2019s-Hertogenbosch by ousting three Top 15 players. Van Rijthoven entered that week as No. 205 in the PIF ATP Rankings, without any tour-level match wins. He followed his title run with a dream fourth-round showing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/wimbledon\/540\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a>, falling to eventual champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/novak-djokovic\/d643\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752846791_969_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nVan Rijthoven, 28, is retiring from pro tennis due to a persistent elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWith a heavy heart, I have to share something today that I have been trying to process for a long time,\u201d the former No. 101 wrote in Dutch on Instagram. \u201cMy professional tennis career is forced to end.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cDue to a stubborn elbow injury that, despite all the rehabilitation and medical journeys, fails to recover, I am forced to say goodbye to the sport I\u2019ve lived my entire life. I would have liked to see it differently. I would have liked to say goodbye on my own terms, with a racket in hand and the audience in the stands. But sometimes the body decides differently than the head. Yet I look back with an incredible amount of pride and gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retirements Van Rijthoven announces retirement: &#8216;An incredible amount of pride and gratitude&#8217; Dutchman won lone ATP title on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-5607","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\/5607","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=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}