Tennis: At the US Open, one last lap for Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia
Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia is playing the final tournament of her career at the US Open. In her first match, she will face Russian Kamilla Rakhimova.
Caroline Garcia. Photo Sipa/Aaron Doster
One final round, on the courts of the US Open where she achieved her best Grand Slam result (a semi-final lost to Ons Jabeur in 2022), and Caroline Garcia will close a chapter that has lasted fifteen years.
The 31-year-old Lyonnaise decided, for the sake of her mental health and the family life she wanted to build, that tennis, at least competitively, was over for her. She still wanted to see the season through to the end and will play her final tournament at Flushing Meadows. She will face the young Russian Kamilla Rakhimova, ranked 52nd in the WTA rankings, in the first round.
A career far from linear“Dear tennis player, it’s time to say goodbye,” the former French number 1 announced on social media last May. […] I feel ready to turn the page and open a new chapter. My journey hasn’t always been easy. Since I started, tennis has always represented much more than victories or defeats. It was love or hate. Joy or frustration.”
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Her relationship with tennis is a reflection of her results: eleven singles titles won, including three Masters 1000s (the last in 2022), periods when the Frenchwoman seemed unplayable (2017, 2022). These prosperous periods contrasted with the troughs she faced, more and more regularly in recent seasons, until they pushed her to take a long break at the end of last year. "I felt mentally weak and weak compared to others. It was vital for me to take a break."
An anomalyExhausted by travel, training, injuries, defeats, the pace of tournaments, and the sacrifices of high-level sport, Caroline Garcia had returned feeling calm after her break of a few months. But it was no longer enough to hope to reach the top of tennis again. "To be super competitive at a very high level, you have to do a lot of things, travel all the time... I no longer have the strength for all that. I no longer have the physical and emotional reserves," she admitted to L'Équipe .
Caroline Garcia will remain a minor anomaly in French tennis: such a beautiful tennis player and such a fine record without a Grand Slam to her name. Not a drama for her, who saw the announcement of her retirement as "a relief" and will now devote herself to more personal projects, such as trying to start a family.
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