Wheelchair tennis star Vergeer retires
Sport, Daily news | ankakh | February 13, 2013 11:59Dutch wheelchair tennis star Esther Vergeer announced her retirement on Tuesday after an astonishing unbroken run of 470 wins spanning more than 10 years.
“A special day: officially stopping tennis,” Vergeer, 31, wrote on the micro-blogging, without elaborating on her reasons for retiring.
Vergeer, who won four Paralympic tennis singles gold medals and three golds in doubles, was scheduled to hold a press conference at 1200 GMT at the ATP Rotterdam Open.
Vergeer won her first gold medal in Sydney in 2000. She has been ranked number one in the world since 1999 and has not lost a singles match since January 2003.
“This is an amazing life still so why quit while I’m still winning?” she said last year. “But it’s not like I’m aiming for the 500 unbeaten record, 600 or whatever.”
Vergeer was just a “little girl” when she started out in wheelchair tennis after losing the use of her legs aged eight following surgery, and she has grown up alongside the sport as it blossomed and gradually became more professional.
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