WTA: Julia Görges announces resignation
Julia Görges retires from active tennis. The long-time German Fed Cup player announced this on her website.
by SID / PM / red
last edit: Oct 21, 2020, 05:46 pm
"I always knew that I would feel it when the right time came to say goodbye to you - the moment has come," wrote Görges in her post to tennis: "Thank you very much for everything you gave me - You will be in my heart forever. "
Görges has won a total of seven individual titles, including the high-class WTA tournament in Stuttgart (2011). She celebrated her last tournament victory in Auckland / New Zealand in 2019, her best world ranking was ninth. She belonged to the "golden generation" around the three-time Grand Slam winner Angelique Kerber (Kiel), the former top 10 player Andrea Petkovic (Darmstadt) and the former Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki (Berlin).
Görges played her last tournament at the French Open in Paris. In Roland Garros she lost in the second round against the later quarter-finalist Laura Siegemund (Metzingen) in three sets.
Klaus and Rittner pay tribute to Görges
Ulrich Klaus, President of the German Tennis Association, and Barbara Rittner, Head of Women's Tennis and longstanding Fed Cup captain, congratulate Julia Görges on an extraordinary career.
"With Julia Görges, a player is saying goodbye to the big tennis stage who has given us immense pleasure on the court over the past decade and a half.", Klaus explained. "In her long career she has always been an excellent representative of German tennis Served many times for Germany in the Fed Cup. You always felt how much passion she put into it and no matter whether it was a victory or a defeat in the end, Julia always carried us away with her tennis and enthused us. We will miss her very much on the tour and in the national team and we can only hope that she will remain in tennis in some form, because for our youth she was and is a great role model with her fighting spirit. "
Barbara Rittner also commented on Julia Görges' resignation: “I was very happy to accompany Jule on her way from the first screening course to the top of the world. In these more than 15 years we have experienced ups and downs together, but above all a lot of emotions. In the Fed Cup, Jule was an absolutely reliable and valuable team player who, with her direct nature, always gave the team a boost. Of course it triggers a certain sadness in me when, after Anna-Lena Grönefeld, Julia Görges, the second player from this successful generation, steps down. But I can very well understand that in these difficult times you deal more intensively with the end of your career and then take the step. I wish Jule all the best for her new life after her tennis career, she will go her own way there too. "