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Goffin announces 2026 will be his final season on tour
Former World No. 7 Six-time ATP Tour Champion
March 27, 2026
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David Goffin performs at the 2025 Miami Open presented by Itau.
Written by ATP Staff
David Goffin has announced that 2026 will be his last season on the ATP Tour.
The 35-year-old Belgian confirmed the decision in a video posted on Instagram on Friday. Goffin, a former seventh-ranked player in the PIF ATP rankings according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, is a six-time tour-level champion and holds a match record of 357 wins and 275 matches.
“Some decisions stay with you for a long time. I gave everything to this sport and tennis gave me more than I could have ever imagined,” Goffin said in the video. “The games, the battles, the wins, the losses. The emotions. The people going through it. That’s why this was one of the hardest decisions of my life.”
Goffin lifted the first of six trophies on the clay courts of Kitzbühel in 2014, while he won the biggest title of his career at the hard-court ATP 500 in Tokyo in 2017. The Belgian has 21 wins so far against top 10 opponents, including one against Roger Federer (who advanced to the championship match at the 2017 Nitto ATP Finals), two against Rafael Nadal and one against Novak Djokovic.
Most recently, Goffin defeated Carlos Alcaraz at the 2025 Miami Open presented by Itau: the Belgian currently leads the Spaniard 2-1 in the Lexus ATP Head2Head Series.
