The last of the "musketeers" leaves. Gael Monfils ends his tennis career

40-year-old Gael Monfils received a "wild card" for the ATP 250 tournament in Lyon (October 19-25) and planned to end his career during the Masters 1000 tournament in his hometown of Paris (November 2-8). However, after applying to be placed on the ITIA tennis players' withdrawn list, he lost his eligibility to participate in tournaments for at least six months.

Rules from the agency responsible for combating doping in tennis require that players on this list be available for random anti-doping tests for at least six months before being allowed to compete again.

Monfils won 13 ATP tournaments, reached two Grand Slam semi-finals (French Open 2008, US Open 2016) and three Masters 1000 finals (Paris 2009 and 2010, Monte Carlo 2016). In 2016, he reached his career-high sixth position in the ATP rankings.

He achieved his last great feat at the beginning of the 2025 season, winning the Auckland tournament at the age of 38. He was then the oldest player to win the ATP title since 1977 (a record later broken by Serbian Novak Djokovic).

He played his last official match in early September in the second round of the US Open in New York.