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

le 25/09/2025 à 10h14

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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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As we move to the end of this month and also closing out the year I am wishing all of those following me a Merry Christmas and a Happy/Healthy New Year.

Let's make that wish for all 2000 plus players hoping for 5 wins each day. Hoping ŵhen we open the results page to see all green, and no red. And especially NO CANCELED matches.

From me and my rotti JAZ, I bid you all good night, and see you in...

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I love tennis

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why did tennis tonic void predictions on the match between Chwalinska and Huergo at the Quito tournament? The match was played to completion and on time. If TT feels the match is one sided, and of course it was, then don't put it up for prediction. This is getting irritating.

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The finals are here, and we scramble for the best finish. I've been chasing "King" all year and I was able to shrink the spread a little. Skelp is also closing the gap.

Seasons best to all the regulars in our league.

Will you all be back in the new year.?

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Steffi Graf completed a Golden Slam (not just a career Grand Slam) when she was 19. She is the only person to accomplish that, winning the four majors plus Olympic gold the same calendar year.

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