{"id":498793,"date":"2026-03-27T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498793\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:29:07","slug":"david-goffin-announces-2026-will-be-his-last-year-on-tour-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498793\/","title":{"rendered":"David Goffin announces 2026 will be his last year on Tour | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Retirements<br \/>\n    Goffin announces 2026 will be his last season on Tour<\/p>\n<p>Former World No. 7 is a six-time ATP Tour champion<\/p>\n<p>March 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/goffin-miami-2025-backhand.jpg\" alt=\"David Goffin in action at the 2025 Miami Open presented by Itau.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Staples\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        David Goffin in action at the 2025 Miami Open presented by Itau.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/david-goffin\/gb88\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Goffin<\/a> has announced that 2026 will be his last season competing on the ATP Tour. <\/p>\n<p> The 35-year-old Belgian confirmed the decision Friday in <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWYo_IxjPRp\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\">a video post on Instagram<\/a>. Goffin, a former No. 7 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, is a six-time tour-level champion and holds a 357-275 match record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cSome decisions stay with you for a long time. I\u2019ve given everything for this sport, and tennis has given me more than I could ever have imagined,\u201d said Goffin in the video. \u201cThe matches, the battles, the wins, the losses. The emotions. The people who were there through all of it. And that\u2019s why this has been one of the hardest decisions of my life.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/apps?utm_source=atp&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=app_banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/-\/media\/&#10;a888346995e24e4da5e94a23e5765cf1.ashx\" alt=\"The Official App Of Tennis | Download ATP WTA Live App\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Goffin lifted the first of his six trophies on the clay in Kitzbuehel in 2014, while he won the biggest title of his career at the hard-court ATP 500 in Tokyo in 2017. The Belgian has so far earned 21 wins against Top 10 opponents, including one against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/roger-federer\/f324\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a> (to reach the championship match at the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>), two against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rafael-nadal\/n409\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> and one against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/novak-djokovic\/d643\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> More recently, Goffin upset <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/carlos-alcaraz\/a0e2\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> at the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/miami\/403\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Open presented by Itau<\/a>: The Belgian currently leads the Spaniard 2-1 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retirements Goffin announces 2026 will be his last season on Tour Former World No. 7 is a six-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-498793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}