Nicolas Mahut bids farewell to tennis in painful farewell in Paris – Tennis Now
By Richard Pagliaro Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Photo Credit: Rolex Paris Masters Instagram
Tennis marathon runners completed their final lap on the tennis court today with cheers ringing in their ears.
Former doubles world number one Nicholas Mahut Played his final match at the Rolex Paris Masters.
Mahut, 43, and partners Grigor Dimitrov On Court 2, in front of a festive and supportive French crowd, the team lost 6-4, 5-7, 10-4 to Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nice.
Before the French doubles legend took the stage to serve for the final match point, partner Dimitrov urged the crowd to salute him with a round of applause. Mahut wiped the sweat and maybe tears from his face with his shirt sleeve and delivered the final ball. Roger Vasselin passed Mahut on the crosscourt, ending a brilliant career.
France fans and several current and former players, including Richard Gasquet, Benjamin Bonzi, Paul-Henri Mathieu and Ivan Ljubicic, stood up in unison to embrace Mahut and continued to applaud at the end.
Five Grand Slam doubles champions✅
Ranked #1 for 39 weeks✅
37 tag team titles✅
2017 Davis Cup✅
There are countless emotional memories✅@grigordimitrov Is it like the legend @nahut bid farewell #rolexparismasters 🙏 pic.twitter.com/oPRCIP6tJm— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) October 28, 2025
Mahut, who holds 37 career doubles titles, won his last doubles title at the 2022 Olympic Games in Florence, partnering with one of his rivals, Roger-Vasselin. Mahut and long-time partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert won the Rolex Paris Masters doubles title in 2019, defeating Karen Khachanov and Andrei Rublev in the 2019 Rolex Paris Masters final.
After the game, Mahut and Dimitrov sat side by side and exchanged Crocodile jerseys like football stars. This move was touching. After signing autographs for fans, Mahut made one final poignant gesture as a pro, placing his wristband on the baseline.
Mahut started playing tennis at the age of 5 and is famous for playing the longest match in tennis history. At Wimbledon in 2010, Mahut defeated John Isner 70-68 in the fifth set in an epic showdown that lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes. Mahut later wrote a book about the marathon called The game of my life.
