Italian tennis player Roberta Vinci, a finalist of the United States Open in 2015 and former number 1 in the women’s doubles, will retire at the end of the Rome tournament, in front of her compatriots, in May 2018, the player announced this Thursday to the press.
“I have decided to continue, but not a whole year,” Vinci, who will turn 35 in February, told the daily La Gazzetta dello Sport. “I will finish (my career) at the Foro Italico (the place where the tournament in Rome is played) and say goodbye to tennis in the middle of the season. I’ve thought about it for a long time, ”Vinci added.
The Italian, who today occupies the 117th position of the WTA ranking, reached the seventh place in the world in the individual category, winning ten titles on the circuit.
It was in doubles where he reaped his greatest successes, occupying the world number 1 from October 2012 to February 2014 and also from July 2014 to April 2015, with 25 titles on the circuit, five of them Grand Slam (Roland Garros and United States Open in 2012, Australian Open in 2013, Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2014), associated with her compatriot Sara Errani.