At the 2024 Olympic Games, Angelique Kerber will be on the court as a tennis professional for the last time. She is ending her career.
Angelique Kerber (36) will soon end her career as a tennis professional. The German Wimbledon winner has announced this. After the Olympic Games in Paris, it will be over for her, but she wants to really enjoy her last tournament.
Angelique Kerber will never forget the 2024 Olympics
Kerber celebrated her comeback at the end of 2023 after a maternity leave, but a few months later her career is now over. “The finish line,” the athlete writes on the social media platform alongside a picture of her sitting in the stands with a tennis racket. Without much ado, she announces: “Before the Olympic Games begin, I can already say that I will never forget Paris 2024, because it will be my last professional tournament as a tennis player.” Although this is probably the right decision, it will never feel like it, explains the 36-year-old. “Simply because I love the sport with all my heart and am grateful for the memories and opportunities it has given me.”
Kerber, who won both the Australian Open and the US Open in 2016 and Wimbledon two years later, looks back on her past Olympic appearances in the article. The Olympic Games in which she took part represented “different chapters of my life as a tennis player: the rise, the summit… and now the finish line.”
Really enjoy the 2024 Olympics
The 2012 Olympics in London helped her to fight doubts and boost her self-confidence after she had almost turned her back on tennis and her childhood dreams the year before. Four years later, she won a silver medal in Rio and Paris 2024 will now “mark the finish line of the most incredible journey I could have ever dreamed of growing up with a tennis racket in my hand”. There is still a lot to say and she has to thank many people, but she wants to do that after her last match. Now Kerber wants to take the time to “soak up every single second of this final episode on the court”.
In February 2023, Angelique Kerber became a mother for the first time. She welcomed her daughter Liana into the world at the time. Kerber had previously canceled her participation in the US Open in August 2022 “for the best possible reason.” She also announced on Instagram that she was having her first baby.
Source: Stern
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