Former world third place in men’s singles Milos Raonic The Canadian announced his retirement from his professional career:
“It’s time. I’m ending my professional tennis career. It’s the moment you know will come one day, but it’s impossible to be truly prepared for it. No matter how ready I am right now. Tennis has been my love and obsession for most of my life.”
I am incredibly lucky to be living and achieving my dreams. I went out on the field every day focused on getting better, seeing where it took me, and playing the game I was introduced to completely by chance when I was eight years old. It somehow became my entire obsession and childhood, and then it turned into my profession and my entire life.
I am grateful to the amazing fans around the world that I have played and trained in front of. They saw me in my best moments on the field and in my hardest moments. They saw me grow. Thank you to everyone who stopped for a moment to watch and support me.
I would like to thank my coaches and my entire team who sacrificed their time with their families and homes to be with me on this path as I pursued my dreams and goals. I am extremely grateful for your mentorship and knowledge.
Thanks to the ATP Tour, ITF and all Grand Slam tournaments. It has been my dream to play in your great tournaments and I have been lucky enough to have this experience with wonderful people who do their best for the beautiful game called tennis.
I would like to thank all my colleagues and competitors. I admired you growing up, I respected you throughout my career, and I will continue to respect you as a fan. Because of you, I have become the best player I can be, a better person, and learned life’s most important lessons while competing with you every week for over twenty years.
Thank you Canada. My family and I came here more than 30 years ago. You made me choose tennis, you changed my family’s life and I enjoyed every moment of being able to represent you all over the world.
Mother, father, Elena and Momir; I am forever grateful to you for often putting your life on hold so that I could have the chance to follow my dreams. All this was only possible thanks to you. Nothing would happen without your constant support, effort and emotional investment. And as happy as I am to have found tennis, it’s nothing compared to how lucky I am to have such parents, a sister and a brother.
I hope to make my wife and son proud every day and be as much a family to them as my family is to me.
A big part of my tennis journey has been the amazing people I’ve been lucky enough to meet from around the world. In many cases, they became mentors who helped me understand the rest of my life. I am grateful for their attention, time and support, which makes the answers to life’s most important questions clearer and more inspiring.
What’s next? I won’t slow down. I still have a lot of life ahead of me and I’m just as motivated and hungry for new goals as I was when I broke through on tour in 2011. I will bring the same dedication and intensity to the next level. “If I can strive for the same level of excellence as in tennis, trying to get better every day, we’ll see where that takes me.”
Milos, 35, has won eight trophies at Tour level. In 2016, she reached the Wimbledon final as well as the semi-finals of the Australian Open and the Finals. Raonic earned $20,764,512 during his career.
Raonic last played in the 2024 Olympics and lost to Dominik Koepfer in the first round.
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