Pablo Andújar announced his retirement from professional tennis for the 2023 season, noting that it will be his last year in the circuit that he has been on since the 2003 season. The man born in Cuenca has a record of 163 wins and 238 losses throughout his career in the ATP circuit.
Spanish tennis has been laying off some of its most veteran players in recent months, such as the cases of Tommy Robredo and Lara Arruabarrena during the 2022 season. For next year, Feliciano López will join him, and now Pablo Andujarwho through an emotional statement on his Instagram account, announced that 2023 will be his last year as a professional, seeking to spend more time at home with his family.
The tennis player who will soon be 37 years old has won a total of four ATP titlesthe last of them in 2018, and also eleven other trophies belonging to the Challenger circuit.
Andújar’s statement
«I’ve been a little off the grid lately. Those of you who follow my career will have seen that I haven’t played too many weeks this year. Every year it becomes more difficult for me to travel and that is why next year will be my last year as a professional player. I believe that my children deserve to be able to enjoy their father more (and I them), that they can be present on their birthdays and that the poor mother is not the one who is always left alone trying to find words when the little ones ask her why the father no this«.
In addition to the familiar, Pablo highlighted other projects linked to tennis, although from outside the courts. «Among those projects is having become part of the ATP Board What a tremendous honor it will be for me to defend those who are still my companions! I hope to be up to the task, I am going to give my 101% so that it is so and we have a better circuit each time«.
