Paris | Cornet to retire after Roland Garros

France’s Alizé Cornet introduced on Saturday in an interview with French TV station CANAL+ that she is going to retire from the WTA Tour after subsequent month’s French Open at Roland Garros, which can happen in Paris from Sunday 26 Might to Sunday 9 June, 2024.

It’s the suitable time as a result of it’s the results of a protracted journey… I simply really feel, like, it’s time. I don’t need to be pushed out, I need to select. And it’s the suitable time for me to say goodbye to tennis. Alizé Cornet

The 34-year-old, who has entertained followers for almost twenty years, will grasp up her rackets, saying ‘the nice second for me to say goodbye to tennis’ is after her house clay-court Grand Slam.

“I’ve a really particular announcement to make to you,” she mentioned. “I’ll play my final Roland-Garros in a month and I’ll retire instantly.

“It’s the suitable time as a result of it’s the results of a protracted journey… I simply really feel, like, it’s time. I don’t need to be pushed out, I need to select. And it’s the suitable time for me to say goodbye to tennis.”

Cornet is a former World No 11, who owns the Open Period file for many consecutive Grand Slam tournaments performed, with 68, and she is going to depart on her 69th look in a serious predominant draw.

With longevity as her hallmark, Cornet made her Grand Slam main-draw debut as a 15-year-old in Paris in 2005, and has not missed a serious predominant draw since her run first started on the 2007 Australian Open.

Presently ranked 107 on the earth, Cornet shall be a probable wild-card recipient to function in the principle attract Paris for a twentieth time.

© Shaun Botterill/Getty Photographs

A winner of 6 profession WTA singles titles, Cornet famously defeated Serena Williams 3 instances in 2014, all whereas the American was ranked No 1 on the earth.

The Frenchwoman has gained the titles in Budapest, Dangerous Gastein, Strasbourg, Katowice, Hobart and the final in Gstaad in 2018 on the WTA Tour, and she or he reached the largest closing of her profession on the clay courts of Rome in 2008, dropping to Jelena Jankovic, 6-2 6-2, as an 18-year-old.

Her different profession win in opposition to a World No 1 was additionally one for the file books, when, within the Third-round of Wimbledon in 2022, she ended Iga Swiatek’s 37-match profitable streak, the longest of this century.

Cornet has 25 profession wins in opposition to High 10 gamers to her title, whereas her different profession highlights embrace a quarter-final look on the 2020 Australian Open, second-week showings in any respect 4 majors, and 4 Olympic appearances for France.

The truth is, the tenacious Frenchwoman has at the very least reached the spherical of 16 at every of the 4 majors.

She additionally performed on France’s Billie Jean King Cup crew for 14 years, and, in 2019, she helped Les Bleues beat Australia at house, 3-2, to turn into world champions.

The win marked the Third time in its historical past that Workforce France gained the ladies’s crew competitors, previously known as the Federation Cup, after which the Fed Cup earlier than being rebranded because the Billie Jean King Cup.

World champions France, represented by Caroline Garcia, Alizé Cornet, Kristina Mladenovic, Pauline Parmentier and Fiona Ferro of France gained the Fed Cup in 2019, beating Australia at house in Perth

© Paul Kane/Getty Photographs

After a highly-touted junior profession, Cornet reached her career-high WTA rating of 11 as a 19-year-old in 2009, and noticed her streak of 15 consecutive seasons contained in the WTA’s year-end High 100 come to an endonlylast 12 months.

After Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 2022, Cornet’s departure represents one other monument of French tennis to bow out at Roland-Garros.

Collectively, Cornet and Tsonga gained the Hopman Cup for France, defeating Agnieszka Radwanska and Grzegorz Panfil of Poland within the closing in 2014.

Cornet will end her profession having made the Final 16 or higher in any respect 4 Grand Slams, along with her finest main end result coming simply 2 years in the past in an emotional run to her first main quarter-final on the Australian Open.

Alizé Cornet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga gained the the Hopman Cup for France in 2014, defeating Agnieszka Radwanska and Grzegorz Panfil of Poland within the closing at Perth Area, Western Australia

© Paul Kane/Getty Photographs