Schwartzman on the eve of the last tournament of his career: "Retirement is a long process".
At the start of the 2025 season, 32-year-old Diego Schwartzman is preparing to call time on his career.
The former world No. 8 and semi-finalist at Roland Garros in 2020 is playing his last tournament this week at home in Buenos Aires.
These are the Argentine's last hours as a top-level sportsman before retirement. His first round opponent is Nicolas Jarry.
In an interview with Punto De Break, Schwartzman talks about his final moments as a professional tennis player, and the period when he realized he had to call it a day.
"Retiring is a long process. My girlfriend is the person I've talked to most about it. Retirement is something you can feel in your gut.
People who see it from the outside always encourage you to keep going and look for other ways to perform, but at the end of the 2022 season, I had a bad run in the indoor tournaments, and then I noticed that I wasn't that nervous in the days before the tournaments.
It was as if nothing was happening. But twenty minutes before the matches, my adrenalin was pumping and that made me feel bad.
What I used to do well years ago had become a feeling of anxiety that made me lose control of the matches, and I didn't like that anymore.
I was playing badly, I didn't feel like training and I wasn't doing well, until I realized I didn't want to go on.
For this last tournament, whether I win or lose won't really matter," he has assured us in recent hours.
