Cornet retires for the second time: "Closing this player chapter for good"

Le 25/09/2025 à 09h14 par Adrien Guyot

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After a two-decade professional career, Alizé Cornet bid farewell to tennis in an emotionally charged final match in San Sebastián.

Alizé Cornet had surprised everyone earlier in the season when she announced her return to competition. The French player, who had put away her rackets after Roland Garros in 2024, used her protected ranking to participate in several tournaments.

Defeated in the final round of Wimbledon qualifying by Elsa Jacquemot, the 35-year-old from Nice played the very last match of her career in early September against Tamara Korpatsch at the WTA 125 event in San Sebastián.

"A quick flashback to a wonderful stay in San Sebastián and the closing (for good this time) of this player chapter. A beautiful place to definitively turn the page and start writing new ones, in every sense of the word," wrote Cornet on her Instagram account.

Professional between 2005 and 2025, Cornet reached a career-high world ranking of 11th and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in 2022, winning six WTA tour titles, the last one in Gstaad in 2018.

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