"I feel I brought everything to tennis" - Petkovic on her retirement from tennis

Andrea Petkovic played her final match at the US Open as she will retire from tennis in the next couple of weeks.

The German is not planning any big retirement but will mostly decide on the spot when she will be done. It could be now, it could be after a few more events but she is certain of her decision to retire. Speaking after the match, the 34-year-old said:

"I think for me I still love the game. Still have a tremendous amount of passion for the game. It's more the body that is not allowing me to play tennis anymore in a way that I want to play it, train the way I want to train. It was fitting for me that I lost to a very young player. To somebody that's the future of tennis, so that felt fitting."

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She further said:

"I did feel this year also for the first time that my narrative has been told, I think I brought everything to the game that I had to give. Obviously it's not in an amount as Serena, but in my own little world, I feel like I brought everything to it and my narrative was done. That was also part of it, that I just felt like I didn't have anything more to give."

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