Former Estonian world No. 2 Anett Kontaveit announced on Tuesday that she would retire at the end of the Wimbledon tournament (July 3-16) due to a back injury, after thirteen seasons on the WTA circuit. .
“I am announcing today that I will be retiring from my professional sports career. After several medical visits and consultations with my own medical team, I was told that I was suffering from a degeneration of a lumbar disc” , explains the player on social networks. “I can no longer train or compete at full speed. This is why I am no longer able to continue to play at the highest level on such a tough circuit,” she adds.
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The 27-year-old Estonian, currently ranked 79th in the world, had reached the second rank of the WTA in June 2022. She reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open 2020, her best result in Grand Slams (round of 16 at Roland-Garros 2018, US Open 2015 and 2020).
She specifies that she will make her “last effort as a professional tennis player” in July at Wimbledon where she has never passed the third round (reached in 2017, 2018, 2019). Since her defeat in the final in Tallinn last October, she has not passed the second round in eight tournaments, with an elimination in the first round at Roland-Garros.
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