Former Wimbledon and French Open champion Muguruza retires
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Says she didn't miss the discipline and the difficulty of the life she had before
- Former world number 1 notes she has realized that what she most want to look forward to is her next chapter and not the tennis chapter
- Muguruza, 30, was ranked number one in 2017 and ranked as high as third by the end of 2021 when she won three WTA titles
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's former world number 1 and Wimbledon and French Open champion Garbine Muguruza announced her retirement at a news conference on Saturday, making the extended break she had announced a year ago a permanent step.
Venezuelan-born Muguruza won the French Open in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017, and she reached the final of the Australian Open in 2020. Last April she said she would take a break from competition to spend more time with her family.
"I didn't miss the discipline and the difficulty of the life I had before. I have been realizing that what I most want to look forward to is my next chapter and not the tennis chapter," she said at a news conference in Madrid.
Muguruza, 30, was ranked number one in 2017 and was ranked as high as third by the end of 2021 when she won three WTA titles.
