Federico Gomez is coming off his breakthrough season on the Tour however it’s removed from excellent within the Argentine tennis participant’s world because the 28-year-old described the final six months as “the toughest” interval of his life and in addition revealed that he has been battling suicidal ideas.
After profitable solely his first ITF title in 2023, the Argentine began making his first notable leads to the second a part of 2024 after touchdown three Challenger titles, which led to him ending the season ranked contained in the top-140.
However earlier than 2024 June, he had by no means been ranked contained in the top-300 on this planet.
Whereas Gomez’s profession appeared to lastly be on the rise, he declared 2024 “the worst on a private degree.”
This yr, the world No. 135 began his season by profitable two qualifying matches to qualify for the ATP occasion in Brisbane.
Since then, he has misplaced his final six matches.
And now, the Argentine – who achieved a career-high rating of No. 133 in early February – needed to share one thing together with his followers.
Gomez: Residing with ideas of quitting tennis, leaving this world…
“Residing with ideas of quitting tennis utterly, of actually questioning whether or not all of that is actually value it and even on repeated events suicidal ideas of not desirous to reside anymore and leaving this world, which I discover very tough to precise however I needed you to know with the intention to perceive actions or behaviors that I probably had on this final interval and this seeks to clarify that a bit,” the three-time Challenger champion wrote on Instagram.
“It is exhausting for me to write down all this with out crying my eyes out, however I feel it is the most effective resolution I may have made at this second to do away with this enormous weight that I really feel on high of me and that eats my head 24/7.”
In the identical message, Gomez stated he hopes this may assist him really feel higher and in the end get again to a very good place in life.
Federico Gomez shares a put up on Instagram the place he opens up a few very tough time for him in life, having even had suicidal ideas. Very, very unhappy factor to learn 😕
(The put up has been robotically translated from Spanish to English) pic.twitter.com/zVq9IjZMCA
— Mario Boccardi (@marioboc17) March 1, 2025
