End clap for Gillou.
Aged 37, Gilles Simon announced on Saturday that he will end his tennis career at the end of the season.
The Niçois is currently ranked 158th in the world, having risen to sixth place in 2009.
“It was a magical, wonderful and extraordinary adventure, he explains on Twitter.
It will stop at the end of the year.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who made it possible.
There is no sadness, no regret.
Just the will to put everything I have left.
On every game, until the end.
»
It was a magical, wonderful and extraordinary adventure.
It will stop at the end of the year.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who made it possible.
There is no sadness, no regret.
Just the will to put everything I have left.
On every game, until the end.
— Gilles SIMON (@GillesSimon84) May 7, 2022
Access to this content has been blocked to respect your choice of consent
By clicking on "
I ACCEPT
", you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners
I ACCEPT
And to better remunerate 20 Minutes, do not hesitate to accept all cookies, even for one day only, via our "I accept for today" button in the banner below.
More information on the Cookie Management Policy page.
He is another pillar of French tennis of the last decade who is about to retire after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
He had just hinted that he would make the same decision in April by responding to the announcement from Manceau with a fairly clear message: "I'm coming buddy".
Gilles Simon has won 14 titles on the ATP circuit and notably reached the final of the Shanghai Masters 1000, where he was beaten by Roger Federer in 2014.
Sport
Tennis: Tsonga powerless in Monte-Carlo for the start of his farewell tour
Sport
Roland-Garros: it becomes clearer for the invitation of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Sport
Tennis
Gilles Simon
Jo Wilfried Tsonga
Retirement