Henin retires from tennis with immediate effect
World number one Justine Henin has retired from tennis with immediate effect. The Belgian pulled out of this week's Italian Open, citing fatigue. Henin, who has won the French Open three years on the trot, suffered a shock reversal against Russia's Dinara Safina in the third round of the German Open last week.
Speaking in Berlin just before that defeat, Henin revealed that she had been looking beyond her career in professional tennis.
"I'm young in life, but starting to get old on the tour," she said. "I'm growing up and I need different things.
"Even physically I don't recover as well as I did when I was 20. That's normal.
"Now I've been playing tennis for 20 years and it's been my whole life but as a woman, as you get older, you need to think about the future."
Henin spent 117 weeks at the top of the rankings and won a total of seven Grand Slam titles.
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Posted by serina – 14 May 2008, 5:53 PM
Henin has certainly had an amazing career in the tennis world and she has a lot to be proud of. Good luck to her as she begins this new phase of her life.