By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Photograph credit score: Carine/WikimediaCommons
Nicolas Mahut will shut the curtain on his historic profession on the finish of this yr.
The 43-year-old Frenchman goals to bid farewell to tennis on the Rolex Paris Masters in November.
An attacking, athletic participant, Mahut received 4 singles titles and 37 doubles championships. Mahut captured 5 Grand Slam doubles crowns, together with finishing the profession Grand Slam in doubles with long-time accomplice Pierre-Hugues Herbert. The pair grew to become the eighth males’s doubles staff in Open Period historical past to finish the profession Grand Slam.
“I’ve made the choice to cease my profession,” Mahut informed Eurosport Frace. “It stays to be seen when, at Bercy or on the US Open.
“If my physique permits it and if I am invited, I might like to have the ability to end in Paris.”
In June of 2016, Mahut ascended to the world No. 1 doubles rating, becoming a member of Corridor of Famer Yannick Noah because the second Frenchman to carry the highest spot in doubles.
On the 2010 Wimbledon, John Isner and Mahut collaborated on a timeless tennis saga that generated worldwide consideration because the longest match in tennis historical past.
Isner’s backhand move down the road on his fifth match level lastly introduced the curtain down on basic encounter that spanned 11 hours, 5 minutes with Isner remodeling exhaustion to elation in incomes a 6-4, 3-6, 6-7(7), 7-6(3), 70-68 epic encounter over French qualifier Mahut. In that marathon match, Mahut smacked 103 aces.
A loyal Davis Cup participant for France, Mahut and Spain’s Marcel Granollers mixed for one of many longest rallies in Davis Cup historical past, an 84-shot extravaganza.
