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Former doubles grand slam champion Jurgen Melzer announces retirement
ATPFriday, 29 October 2021 at 18:00
Jurgen Melzer has had a very long and storied career with the Austrian now formally announcing his retirement from tennis.
Austrian Jurgen Melzer and his partner fourth-ranked singles player
Alexander Zverev were beaten in straight sets 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 by John
Peers and ninth ranked doubles player Filip Polášek. Melzer only played five matches this season after he became the sports director for the Austrian Tennis Association in February.
In his long career, Melzer reached a career-high singles ranking of 8, a career-high doubles ranking of 6 with 725 wins, and 22 career titles in singles and doubles combined. The retirement came back home in Austria to which Melzer said:
"I viewed this as a bonus, to get to play one last match at home. Saying goodbye at home is special to me. It’s where my
career started, it’s where I had a lot of success.” I’ve always
tried to be a good ambassador for the sport and make this sport as likable as possible."
Melzer further added:
"What I liked today is the past two days, [for
those] playing on this court in the city there were not a lot of
spectators. But today they actually showed up and I could say goodbye and that meant a lot to me…I will remember this one for sure.”
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