Garbiñe Muguruza, emphatic about her retirement from tennis

Garbiñe Muguruza left the tennis racket in a corner after losing to the Czech Linda Noskova in its debut at the WTA tournament in Lyon, in France on January 30. Days later, she reported that she was taking a break to be more with her family. She was more forceful in April, when she assured that the break would be extended.

“I am spending time with family and friends and it is being very healthy and incredible for me, so I am going to extend this period until the summer, so that I am going to miss the season of dirt and grass,” announced whoever it was. world number one, champion at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, at 29 years old.

She had made more history by being the first Spanish tennis player to win the WTA Finals, the Masters, in November 2021 in the Mexican town of Guadalajara. She dreamed of completing the Grand Slam, but suddenly her victories turned into heavy defeats, even more so because she used to come after having been dominating the game and the scoreboard.

He started 2022 with four losses, and said enough is enough. Outside of the WTA Tour, she also ended her professional relationship with her coach. conchita martinez.

is withdrawn Garbiñe Muguruza? “It is not a withdrawal at all, but I have noticed that this year I had to take a breather because I really missed spending time with my parents, with my brothers, recovering a bit of all the things that I have missed during so many years of sports career. , right? I’m at that moment and I’m very happy to have made that decision, I really needed it, that’s it,” she said in an exclusive interview with Hola magazine to announce her wedding, possibly in 2024, with her partner Arthur Borges.

The Caracas woman does not set a date, however, back on the slopes. On the contrary, it extends its point and aside, which would reach all this 2023. “I think it will be more of a thing for the whole year. In principle I said summer, but I want to take advantage of this moment and since I have decided to take a breather extend it as much as possible, because then the life of an athlete is very hard, so I would like to extend it until the end of the year”, he explains in the same interview.

This stage would respond to “so many years in a life as a professional athlete. It is so sacrificed, there comes a time when you say: I need a rest, period. It is missing your loved ones, wanting to be with them, spending Christmas together… No is that he said: now I have seen Arthur and I fell in love and… It is really a set of everything”.

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A monumental sporting challenge lies ahead if he maintains the idea of ​​returning to elite sport. She will go to zero in the WTA world rankings, in which she is currently ranked 167th. A situation similar to that of Rafael Nadalalthough of different origins and with different plans for the future, since the man from Manacor depends on the evolution of his punished body, which has also affected the mental factor.

In common, both off the courts, without a return date and in principle with the vocation of being seen on them later. Rafael Nadal He spoke of an attempt perhaps at the end of this 2023, mentioning the Davis Cup, of a goodbye in competition during 2024. Garbiñe Muguruza he gives himself more time to see which path he takes.

Nadal will turn 37 on June 3, while Muguruza will turn 30 on October 8. They coincided in a historic day of world tennis as the men’s and women’s No. 1, respectively, on September 11, 2017.