Kontaveit says goodbye to tennis at Wimbledon

Annette Kontaveit (#81 in the WTA rankings) will jump onto the court to begin her campaign in what will be her last tournament as a professional tennis player. At Wimbledon against Italy’s Lucrezia Stefanini he will seek to extend this farewell to high performance for as long as possible. Last year, at the same height, she was the third racket in the world, but her chronic back problem forced her to decide.

The Estonia-born 27 years ago was the world’s second and six-time champion on the Women’s Tour: WTA 250 in s-Hertogenbosch, Cleveland and Cluj Napoca, as well as WTA 500 in Ostrava, Moscow and St. Petersburg. She also reached 11 other finals including the WTA 1000 in Wuhan 2018 and Doha 2022. She also fought for the WTA Finals, losing in the deciding match with Gdarbiñe Muguruza.

He’s a quarter-finalist at the 2020 Australian Open and the 80th at Roland Garros 2018 and USO 2015 and 2020. The only Grand Slam tournament where he didn’t make it to week two was Wimbledon: he reached the third round in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Is Will he be able to win this suspended account on your last official entry on the WTA Tour?

Therefore, he has to meet in the first place with the Italian Lucrezia Stefanini (111th). The 25-year-old Florence-born tennis player has a record of 21 wins and 13 losses in the early part of the calendar with impressive results on the ITF World Tour. There he won the W25 in Egypt and the W40 in France. Gaiba’s quarter-final runs in the WTA 125 recently gave her a boost to once again put herself a few steps outside the top 100 – a lot she has yet to reach.

The match takes place on Wednesday no earlier than 7:30 am (Chile), 8:30 am (Argentina), 06:30 am (Colombia and Peru) and 5:30 am (Mexico). All Wimbledon tennis live on ESPN and STAR+.