Stan Wawrinka He turns 41 in March and has decided that 2026 will be his last season as a professional. In 2021 he suffered a major tendon injury and was blank in 2022. It seemed like it could be the end, but it came back and has been there for the last few years even playing Challengers, for pure “love of tennis”in his own words.
But he is a legend of the racket, winner of three Grand Slams in the heyday of Djokovic, Nadal and Federer. Stan beat the best Djokovic in the 2015 Roland Garros final and the 2016 US Open final. Before, in 2014, He beat Rafa in the Australian Open, in the match in which the Spaniard hurt his back after the first set.
He is a very beloved tennis player on the circuit, of whom the beautiful one-handed backhand always stands outan endangered hit that he executes impeccably. In the Australian Open, where he participates with an invitation, he has passed two rounds, but in the third lost against a “top 10” player like Taylor Fritz: 7-6 (7/5), 2-6, 6-4 y 6-4.
The interviews at the end of the match are for the winners, but as it was Wawrinka’s farewell to Melbourne, he also spoke.
But not only that. His Farewell “party” was going for a couple of beers and toasting Craig TidleyCEO of Tennis Australia, and with the entire publicto whom he thanked the support received during all these years.
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