Tennis star Anett Kontaveit has announced she will be retiring after this year's Wimbledon due to a chronic back injury.
The 27-year-old was ranked number two in the world last year, but says it is "impossible to continue at the top level" due to her injury and she has been forced into an early retirement. Kontaveit won six professional titles in her career, with her best Grand Slam performance coming in 2020 when she reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.
This February, Kontaveit was forced to pull out of her match against Shelby Rogers at the Abu Dhabi Open due to back issues and was out of action for two months. And Kontaviet has now revealed the chronic injury means she will have to retire.
