Former Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic has officially confirmed his retirement from tennis.
Born in former Yugoslavia during the violent breakup of the country in the early 1990s, Raonic moved to Canada with his family at the age of three. He won his first ATP title at the Pacific Coast Championships in 2011, defeating Fernando Verdasco in the final.
Notable for a powerful serve which earned him the nickname “Missile”, Raonic’s career peaked in 2016 when he reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open and the final at Wimbledon, losing to Andy Murray in both contests.
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“This is a moment you know will come one day, but somehow you never feel ready for it. This is as ready as I will ever be. Tennis has been my love and obsession for most of my life,” Raonic wrote in a post on social media platform X.
“I have been the luckiest person to get to live out and fulfil my dreams. I got to show up every day and focus on just getting better, seeing where that will take me.”
His loss to Djokovic at the 2020 Cincinnati Masters was his last trip to an ATP final and his last tour-level event was his first-round loss to German Dominik Koepfer at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
