2023-09-16 02:06:32
The Bahian tennis player Guido Pella announced this Friday that he is retiring from tennis after almost two decades of professional activity, and a few days after losing in the opening round of the US Open. In that competition, the 33-year-old left-hander from Bahia lost against the South African Lloyd Harris, a match that then became the last of his career. His best ranking was twentieth place in the ATP rankings in 2019.
Pella made the announcement of his retirement on his social networks with an emotional post: “I decided to put an end to my career as a professional tennis player. It was an incredible journey, with many beautiful things that allowed me to live moments that not everyone can and for that I will be eternally grateful. I think I was able to accomplish almost everything that I I proposed in tennis, and now it will be time to look for goals elsewhere. Goodbye.”
The Bahian He was an important link in the team that won the historic title in the 2016 Davis Cup, an occasion in which he opened the victory against Poland, where he won the first point from Michał Przysiężny. Along the way, against Italy he had played the doubles with Juan Martín Del Potro in the victory against the Fognini-Lorenzi doubles, and against Great Britain he defeated Kyle Edmund in the second point, but fell to Andy Murray in the fourth.
In his individual career he won only one title: the Sao Paulo ATP in 2019and also raised the glasses of 13 other Challenger level tournaments, while in doubles they were 6 their celebrations, also on Challenger. And from that 2019 in which he reached 20th place in the ATP ranking, there will be the postcard of the memory of his arrival to the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
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