This may be a strange time to retire, as there is no tennis anyway, but former Top 50 player Anna Tatishvili didn’t want to wait for this COVID-19 pandemic to subside and took to Twitter to announce her immediate retirement from professional tennis.
The 30-year-old Georgian-born American, who reached a career-high ranking of world No.50 in 2012, explained the reasons for ending her career:
A lot of you have been asking me when my next tournament is and when will you see me back on the court. Unfortunately, due to recurring injuries, my body is not allowing me to play competitive tennis any longer — it turned out that professional tennis is not only a fight on the court but also an equal degree, maybe even more, a fight with injuries.