Former world no.9 Timea Bacsinszky calls it a career at 32 years of age. The entertaining Swiss players didn’t play for the last 2 years and it was time to move on.
Timea had a great career with 4 titles at WTA level, an Olympic Silver medal (in Rio de Janeiro Olympics in the mixed doubles), and 12 other titles in singles. Timea reached the Roland Garros semifinal in 2015 and 2017.
Bacsinszky announced her retirement with the following statement on social media:
“As a little girl, I could never have imagined accomplishing so many beautiful things through you, experiencing so many emotions, learning so much, especially about myself, but about the world as well. You have been the most beautiful school of life and I cannot thank you enough for that… 18 beautiful years during which I dedicated myself to you. Now it’s time for me to turn the page, and write new ones, which I hope will be as intense.
Thank you for the hard times, the smiles, the tears, the doubts but above all the teachings that you were able to transmit to me.
I am very proud of all that I have been able to accomplish with you ❤️
Thank you also to all the people who have been part of my trip all these years, from near or far, starting with my Mom, my Family and my Friends, Alex, Erfan, Dim, Beni, Vincent, Andreas, all my medical team, as well as Swiss Tennis, Swiss Olympic, my FED CUP Team 🇨🇭, WTA, my partners and sponsors, my clubs and of course all the people who have supported and encouraged me here and all over the world with so much affection and love! Without you I would never have believed in my dreams and constantly pushed my own limits. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️
I am retiring from professional sport today but I will never forget the sparkles I had in my eyes ⭐️
Loads of love to all of you,
Take care of yourselves,
See you soon,
Timea :)”
Timea Bacsinszky in 2021
At the moment ranked no.517, the Swiss played her last match on the 16th of September 2019 when she lost to world no.111 Kristie Ahn 6-0 6-0 in the 1st round in Seoul (draw).
At present, during this year the Swiss has managed to achieve a composed 0-0 match record.
