{"id":24272,"date":"2025-10-01T03:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/tennis-star-gaelmonfils-will-retire-at-the-end-of-next-season\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:07:34","slug":"tennis-star-gaelmonfils-will-retire-at-the-end-of-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/tennis-star-gaelmonfils-will-retire-at-the-end-of-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis star Gaelmonfils will retire at the end of next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2020%2F0216%2Fr666995_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2020%2F0216%2Fr666995_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2020%2F0216%2Fr666995_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2020%2F0216%2Fr666995_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gael Monfils announced that next season will be his last as a professional tennis player.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Frenchman won his first ATP Tour title 20 years ago, reaching sixth in the world rankings, and in 2008 he took the semi-finals at Roland Garros&#8217; home soil, then opened eight years later.<\/p>\n<p>But what he has made him a favorite around the world was the athletic style that pleases the crowds of Monfils, writing in X, &#8220;It&#8217;s joy, pure joy, spills that you see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>World No. 53, who is married to fellow professional Erina Svitrina, said, &#8220;When you love something, it doesn&#8217;t feel like a good time to say goodbye. But 40 is the right time for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gael Monfils announced that next season will be his last as a professional tennis player. The 39-year-old Frenchman won his first ATP Tour title 20 years ago, reaching sixth in the world rankings, and in 2008 he took the semi-finals at Roland Garros&#8217; home soil, then opened eight years later. But what he has made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6451,128,745,86,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-24272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-gaelmonfils","9":"tag-retire","10":"tag-season","11":"tag-star","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}