Alizé Cornet announces retirement

Alizé Cornet announces retirement

“I want to decide how and when to quit, not be forced to do it“. Thusì the 34-year-old from Nzza Alizé Cornet announced her retirement from competitive activity, specifying that she will play her last tournament at Roland Garros, the caa Slam on clay in Paris.

In her career è she was No. 11 in the world in 2009, when she was only 19 years old and looked like she could achieve bigger results than she actually did. She won six WTA major circuit tournaments between 2008 and 2018, four on clay, one on cement and one indoor.

In Grand Slam tournaments her best result came at the’Australian Open in 2022, when she è made it to the quarterfinals, while è made it to the final in Rome in 2008, beaten with a double 6-2 by Jelena Jankovic, and that can’ be considered her only appearance in a final in a 1000, which was then called Tier I. È was also a two-time Fed Cup finalist with France, losing in 2016 to the Czech Republic and winning it instead in 2019 with Australia.

She canò boast 25 matches won against top 10 players, including five in Slams, including three at Wimbledon: resounding 2014 success over Serena Williams on London’s lawns, where she also stopped Iga Swiatek’s streak of 37 consecutive wins in 2022. Moreover, in Paris she will consolidate the absolute record of appearances in the Open Era at Slam tournaments that already belongs to her: it will become 65, 3 more than Japan’s Ai Sugiyama and 4 more than Francesca Schiavone.