Tennis says goodbye to one of its great champions. The Spaniard Garbine Muguruza, winner of two Grand Slams (Roland-Garros 2016, Wimbledon 2017) and former world number 1, announced her retirement, more than a year after her last official tournament, played in Lyon in January 2023. At the time, she explained that she wanted to “take a break” to enjoy her family and loved ones.
This Saturday, she took advantage of the Laureus World Sport Awards ceremony to definitively confirm her retirement. “The time has come to say goodbye. It has been a long and beautiful career, but I feel that the time has come to retire,” confirmed the woman who also won the WTA Masters in 2021.
" I realized my dream "
“If, 25 years ago, when I started hitting my first tennis balls, someone had told me that I would become a professional tennis player, that I would realize my dream of winning Roland Garros and Wimbledon, that I would become world number 1, I would have thought that this person was crazy,” said the woman who also won the WTA Masters in 2021.
Arriving on the professional circuit in 2012, Garbine Muguruza won her first title in Hobart (Australia) in January 2014 before losing in her first Grand Slam final against Serena Williams at Wimbledon. The following year, Muguruza took her revenge on the American legend by winning against her in the final of Roland Garros in 2016 to become the first Spanish woman to win a Grand Slam since Arantxa Sanchez in 1998. In the summer of 2017 , Muguruza became the first player in history to dominate both Williams sisters in the final, defeating Venus at Wimbledon.