Emotive farewell letter from Schwartzman: “No one gave me anything, I won it”

In an emotional letter, Diego Schwartzman says goodbye to tennisrecalls the difficulties of its beginnings, reviews the best moments of his career and opens his heart before the love of fans who followed him over so many years in the elite of sport.

“During my childhood, my family did not have an easy economic life. I was traveling with my mother, there was never television at the hotel and in almost all tournaments we shared bed. We manage to earn money to travel. We even sold rubber bracelets that had been left over to my family’s old business to pay those trips. I went to the tournaments selling them. “

“How did I get to where I got really? Sincere, I didn’t really know that I was going to get there “, The 32 -year -old Argentine wrote at the ATP Tour site.

“In it Us Open of 2017, I was standard head in a Grand Slam tournament for the first time And I arrived in the quarterfinals. It was then that I took my career to a new level. After that moment, I understood how my body would feel after five sets, what would be the second week of a major. “

“The following year, I entered the top 20 for the first time. In 2020, I arrived at the semifinals in Roland Garros, I reached the number 8 in the ATP ranking, the best of my career, and competed in the ATP finals. The next March I won my fourth and last ATP Tour title in my house, in Buenos Aires. It was a magical moment for a boy from Argentina. “

“During that time I learned that to succeed you need a lot. There are many important things: training, food, mentality, having the right people around you and having confidence in your abilities and your preparation. I gave everything” .

“My tennis was not based only on right and back blows. Sometimes I walked on the court trying to think about how I could break my opponent. It is curious that, in the end, tennis has broken me and that is why this is the end. “

“But that’s fine. I am happy. If they had told a young Diego that I would achieve what I have achieved, my answer would have been simple:” There is no possibility. “

“I really like people when people tell me:” You were a fighter, but you were also a very good tennis player. “You’re not going to be on top of the sport being just a fighter. You need to play a good tennis. You need to have a good right -wing, good service and good movement. “

“I was there because it was good in this sport. No one gave me anything. I won it,”he concluded in his extensive letter for the ATP Tour.