As you can read, Andrea Petkovic hung up her tennis racket on the famous nail last week.

Such reports should be treated with caution.

It is extremely rare to come across famous nails.

And the fact that a tennis racket is hanging from them would be the next surprise.

Andrea Petkovic, as we translate the message, has declared her tennis career over after 16 years as a professional, at the age of just 34 (she has been 35 since Friday).

A lot of tears flowed and flowed, it was difficult to say goodbye, and it was quite comforting for , fans when , posted a photo on Instagram a little later, taken on a beach in New York, in a bikini and with a bottle of beer in a celebratory mood.

Her well-considered text: "First day of retirement, enjoy my six-pack while you can."

You have to say: It is the dilemma of all competitive athletes at the end of their career.

No more training all day, a beer on the beach, and then at some point the highly trained body, which has been abused for years, makes itself really comfortable (not for everyone, but for many), and then he goes there, the six-pack admired by everyone the model figure.

With which the competitive athlete is faced with the fundamental question: Is there life without a six-pack?

You should know what a six pack actually is.

What is meant is not the six-pack of Astra from the gas station, but the abdominal muscles, which remain hidden under a good layer of bacon in normal athletes, if present at all, but are more or less open in high-performance athletes.

For this purpose, the body fat percentage in men must not be more than 13 percent, in women no more than 19 percent.

Without training, the six-pack evaporates quickly.

After a few weeks he disappeared behind the commuter belt.

The question of all questions that the retiring competitive athlete asks himself remains: Is there life after the six-pack?

It usually only helps to call an expert who is doing research on six-packs at the Fernuni Hagen or something.

But we don't need it, I'm happy to make myself available as an expert at this point, since I can now look back on several decades without a presentable six-pack and therefore find words of consolation: Yes, there is life without a six-pack.

And it should continue even if you not only hang the tennis racket on the famous nail, but also the six-pack at the same time.