PublishedJuly 16, 2021, 8:50 am
The Lausanne native has had enough of active tennis and announces her retirement.
The Lausanne native was one of the female figureheads of Swiss Tennis for a long time.
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However, Bacsinszky had already played the last game on the WTA tour in 2019.
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The Swiss tennis player Timea Bacsinszky ended her career at the age of 32 with immediate effect.
The Lausanne-based woman reached the French Open semi-finals twice in her career and won Olympic silver in doubles with Martina Hingis in Rio in 2016.
The Vaudois played her last game on the WTA tour in September 2019.
At 32, after 18 years as a professional, after four WTA titles, Timea Bacsinszky has had enough of top tennis. The Lausanne woman announced her resignation on Instagram. As a little girl, she never dreamed of what she was experiencing, she writes. “Thank you for the hard moments, the smile, the tears, the doubts, but also the training that you passed on to me,” she thanks tennis.
She also thanks her family and friends in her posts on Instagram. During her career, Bacsinszky won the WTA titles in Luxembourg (2009), Acapulco and Monterrey (both Mexico 2015) and Rabat (Morocco 2016). She also won six doubles titles with various partners. She also reached the semi-finals twice at the French Open in 2015 and 2017.
Above all, the legendary game against Serena Williams in 2015, when Bacsinszky won the first set and had her first entry into a Grand Slam final in mind, but then could no longer counter an extremely theatrical Williams and at the end of ten, will not be forgotten Games lost in a row.
The Lausanne native not only impressed as a lone fighter on the WTA tour, but was also able to surpass herself in her career in the games in the Fed Cup. In addition, Bacsinszky won a sensational Olympic silver in doubles together with Martina Hingis in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. One of the high points in the career of the French-speaking Swiss, which was marked by ups and downs.
Already in 2013 with thoughts of resignation
Bacsinszky had already paused her career in April 2013 and even then was toying with a final resignation. The now 32-year-old tried her hand at unfamiliar territory and did an internship in a hotel. A month later, she received a short-term entry for the qualification of the French Open, whereupon she continued her career.
The fact that the final resignation will follow in 2021 is not entirely surprising. Bacsinszky had her last official game on September 16, 2019 in Seoul, where she had to take a bitter clap against the American Kristie Ahn (0: 6, 0: 6). Afterwards, the Swiss fought repeatedly with injuries and finally couldn’t find her way back to the WTA tour.
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