"It was a magical, wonderful and extraordinary adventure. It will end at the end of the year. There is no sadness, no regrets. Just the will to put everything I have left. On each match , until the end," tweeted the 37-year-old from Nice.
"A huge THANK YOU to everyone who made it possible," he added.
Currently 158th in the ATP rankings, Simon achieved his best ranking with 6th place in the world on January 5, 2009, after a prosperous 2008 season with three titles (Bucharest, Indianapolis and Casablanca) and above all a semi-final at the Masters 1000 in Toronto (hard ) and a final at the Masters 1000 in Madrid (hard) with a victory over Rafael Nadal in the semis.
During this 2008 season during which he also beat Novak Djokovic, he qualified for the Masters in Shanghai, offering himself the scalp of Roger Federer before yielding in the semi-final against Djokovic, not without having pushed the Serb in its entrenchments (4-6, 6-3, 7-5).
In the Grand Slam tournaments, he played a quarter-final at Wimbledon in 2015, losing against the host, Roger Federer, a level he also reached in 2009 in Australia (defeat against Rafael Nadal).
Simon is the second member of the talented generation of French tennis in the late 2000s and 2010s to announce the imminent end of his career, after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who announced a month ago that he will hang up after Roland -Garros.
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