Bartoli Calls it a Career in Cincinnati
Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli has decided to retire from the sport of tennis, saying she could no longer deal with the continuous pain on the court. Her announcement came at the conclusion of her match at the 2013 Western & Southern Open, a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 loss to Simona Halep, less than two months after her Wimbledon victory. She had been hampered by an injured left foot, right ankle, right hamstring and Achilles tendon injury.
”My body was really starting to fall apart and I was able to keep it together, go through the pain, with a lot of pain, throughout this Wimbledon and make it happen,” said Bartoli. ”That was probably the last little bit of something that was left inside me. I‘ve been playing for a long, long, long time, and it’s time for me now. It is.”
Bartoli reached a career-high ranking of seven in the world at the start of the 2012 season, and this past June, won the Wimbledon Women’s Singles Title in her 47th Grand Slam tournament, the most by any woman before winning one.
‘I have pain everywhere after 45 minutes or an hour of play,” said Bartoli. ”I’ve been doing this for so long. And yeah, it’s just body-wise, I can’t do it anymore.”
