“Life still has so much to offer”
Former world number three ends tennis career
01/12/2026 – 07:57 amReading time: 2 minutes
Milos Raonic once made it high up in the world rankings. Now the tennis player is drawing a line in the sand.
Canadian tennis player Milos Raonic has ended his active career. “I was the happiest person because I was able to fulfill my dreams out there,” said the former world number three on social media. Raonic had not played a tournament since his first round exit at the 2024 Olympics against Dominik Koepfer.
He recalled: “Every day I could just work on getting better, seeing where it would take me, and playing a game that I learned about by pure chance when I was eight. Somehow that became my entire passion and childhood and then my job and my life,” Raonic continued.
The huge server Raonic won eight ATP titles in his career, most recently in Brisbane in January 2016 with a final victory over Roger Federer. In his only major final, he lost in three sets to Andy Murray at Wimbledon in 2016. Raonic also reached the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament twice: in 2014 he lost to Federer at Wimbledon and in five sets to Murray at the Australian Open in 2016.
And what’s next for him? “I won’t let up. Life still has so much to offer and I’m just as motivated and hungry as I was in 2011 when I made my breakthrough on the tour,” Raonic said. “I will throw myself into the next challenges with the same energy and intensity. If I can strive for the same excellence as in tennis, just want to get better every day, then I’ll see where that takes me.”