Weeks later, Leonardo Mayer from Corrientes announced his retirement from professional tennis. He was the first of the Argentine team that achieved the Davis Cup 2016 to make his retirement official.
In a “hand in hand” with the newspaper La Nación, Mayer told the journalist Sebastián Torok about his future, his family life and reviewed his 18-year career in elite tennis. “The youngest of four brothers – three men and one woman – of a modest family in the Laguna Seca neighborhood of Corrientes, rose to prominence as one of the most lovable figures in the history of Argentine tennis. The Davis Cup, the blessed collective trophy in a A sport of individual essence that Argentina was denied for 93 years until in 2016 the spell was broken in Croatia, it shielded it, gave it a hierarchical status, “the note begins with the national media.
“Before announcing the retirement, my head was going a thousand forward and a thousand back. I started writing the letter right here. I sat on the couch while the boys played and cried alone. I wrote it with my cell phone, more or less, and I started showing it to my wife, to everyone. The next day I didn’t dare to publish it and I only did it a day later. Those days I didn’t have a good time, but that’s it. I’m happy, I’m not bitter about anything. I don’t blame myself to have left. I’m fine. I couldn’t continue. I no longer had any desire, “said the Corrientes who knew how to be 21st in the world ranking in 2015, reached two ATP 500 titles in singles (Hamburg 2014 and 2017) and with 376 matches in the elite (179 victories).
Among his pending accounts for the future, Leo said: “I did high school up to third year. In 2022 I sign up to finish it remotely. I have to finish it. Mili (his wife) tells me to finish it. It’s important, I have to do it. . It is one more title, as Bilardo said (smiles) “.
