
Player Retirements
Anett Kontaveit: A career in photos
Former World No.2 Anett Kontaveit will call time on her professional tennis career after her second-round loss to Marie Bouzkova at Wimbledon. She is still entered in the mixed doubles this fortnight.
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Best wishes to Anett Kontaveit of Estonia, who is ending her professional tennis career during the 2023 Wimbledon fortnight at the age of 27.
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During her time on the Hologic WTA Tour, which spanned over a decade, Kontaveit won six singles titles and reached 11 additional singles finals.
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Kontaveit spent 11 weeks at her career-high singles ranking of World No.2, which she hit for the first time on June 6, 2022.
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The Estonian had a particularly stellar stretch of play at the end of the 2021 season. She went 29-4 in her last eight events of that year, winning four titles during that timeframe.
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She was the first Estonian to qualify for the WTA Finals, where she finished runner-up to Garbiñe Muguruza in 2021. Kontaveit also made WTA 1000 finals at 2018 Wuhan and 2022 Doha.
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From September 2021 through April 2022, Kontaveit won 22 consecutive matches at indoor events. She won four of her six career titles within that run of indoor dominance.
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Kontaveit’s career-best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came at the 2020 Australian Open, where she beat Belinda Bencic and Iga Swiatek back-to-back to make the quarterfinals.
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