Fabio Fagnini announced the retirement of Wimbledon after the first round to Carlos Alkaraj

Fabio Fganinini, a London top-ten player, announced on Wedumbeldon on Wednesday that he lost to Carlos Alkaraj on the first day of the tournament last week.

The 38-year-old Italian two-time defending champion Alkaraj for more than 4/2 hours in the center court, pushed for more than 4/2 hours before coming to the wrong edge of 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 2-6, 6-1.

Fognini’s defeat has increased in 10 tour-level matches drawn with a record of 0-7 in 2021.

“It’s hard to say what I do now. I want to enjoy the summer with my family that is what I want more than anything right now and” I’m happy. I was living some indescribable moments. Tennis gave me a lot of things it it gave me everything. “

Fagnini is the 2015 US Open Champion Flavia Pennetter’s husband. He won the title at the age of six after losing childhood friend Roberta Vinci, and then saw this in court and surprised everyone that he would happen after his retirement.

After the match against Alkaraj, Fagnini wanted a shirt from Spaniard as a gift to her and Penter’s three children. Later when he reached the locker room, Fagnini said he was permanently encouraged from other players.

“There are things that mean more than victory or defeat,” he said. “And (exit) in that court, in front of my family, more valuable than any title” “

A self-narrow hothead, Fagnini was well known for some foreign on-court behavior that repeatedly caused fine.

During the match in Wimbledon in the match, he said during the match that he said “a bomb will explode at the club” and the then record $ 2, $ 5 in 20. She was entered by the Grand Slam Board in 2017 after insulting the female chair umpire at the US Open and exiting the doubles event of that tournament.

During Wednesday’s Italian language, Fognini told reporters from his country that he wished he had not been confronted with them for years.

It was the 63rd Grand Slam event for Fognini, whose best result was in the quarterfinals of the French Open, though he did not play in an injured thigh, allowing his opponent Novak Djokovic to move forward.

Fagnini left the sport with nine tour titles, lastly in Monti Carlo in 2019. After that year, he reached number 9 in the ATP rankings, the first person from Italy in the top ten after 1979. Doubles, Fognini also came to number 7 and won eight titles.

He was ranked 5th in Singles before Wimbledon.

“I have done this for 20 years,” Fagnini said, “And I don’t know how to do anything else.”