By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday Might 23, 2025
Paris – Caroline Garcia will play her final Roland-Garros in 2025. The 31-year-old former World No.4 introduced the information on social media on Friday, simply two days earlier than the beginning of the primary attract Paris.
“After 15 years competing on the highest stage, and greater than 25 years investing just about each second of my life into it, I really feel prepared to start out a brand new chapter,” she wrote. “Nonetheless, this isn’t over – not simply but. I nonetheless have some tournaments left. The primary one is at dwelling, at Roland-Garros. My 14th consecutive time being a part of it. And my final. So, to all my tennis household who’ll be round, let’s meet yet another time, to dream and combat collectively.”
Expensive tennis,It’s time to say goodbye.
After 15 years competing on the highest stage, and greater than 25 years placing just about each second of my life into it, I really feel prepared to start out a brand new chapter.My tennis journey hasn’t all the time been simple. Since my early days, tennis has been… pic.twitter.com/6OLuSU4Se3
— Caroline Garcia (@CaroGarcia) May 23, 2025
Garcia performed some unbelievable tennis over the course of her profession, profitable 11 titles and 26 High-10 wins. She reached the semifinals on the 2022 US Open – the very best efficiency of her profession– and gained 62 matches on the majors
She gained the WTA Finals in 2022.
Garcia grew to become engaged just lately, and has additionally branched out and develop into a podcast host. She anchors the Tennis Insider Membership podcast, which options interview with different skilled tennis gamers and athletes.
Garcia had an up and down profession, however the highs had been exceptionally excessive. She was contained in the High-10 in 2018, rising to No.4, then dropped all the best way out of the High-70 earlier than returning to No.4 in a 2022 season that noticed her document 46 wins, her first win over a reigning World No.1 (over Iga Swiatek) and attain her first main semifinal.
