Diego Schwartzman and Fernando Verdasco headline ATP Tour retirements in 2025

Best of 2025

Schwarzman, Verdasco make headlines for 2025 retirements

Eubanks, Mahut, Kudla also appear in Part 1

December 7, 2025

To mark the end of another exciting season, ATPTour.com presents our annual “Best of” series, which will reflect the most interesting rivalries, games, comebacks, upsets and more. Diego Schwartzman and Fernando Verdasco lead Part 1 of our “Best” Retirement Stories. Richard Gasquet and Fabio Fognini will star in the second part.

Diego Schwartzman
Schwartzman will be remembered on tour as much for his achievements as for setting the standard for players looking to push their personal limits through his discipline, passion and natural competitiveness. Despite standing just 5 feet 7 inches and being told as a teenager that his height would hold him back, the Argentine eventually reached a career-high No. 8 in the PIF ATP Rankings, lifting four ATP Tour trophies.

“I really love it when people say to me, ‘You’re a fighter, but you’re also a really good tennis player,'” Schwartzman reflected in a first-person essay about his career. “Just being a boxer doesn’t get you to the top of the sport. You need to play good tennis. You need to have a good forehand, a good serve and good movement. Just being a boxer doesn’t get you to the top.

“I’m there because I’m good at the sport. No one gave me a gift. I deserved it. When I was young, I didn’t expect to achieve what I did. But in my career, I belong here.”

Schwarzman has participated in 36 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments at Roland Garros since 2014 and has participated in 52 consecutive ATP Masters 1000 main draws for more than seven years. His best Grand Slam result came on clay in Paris, reaching the semifinals in 2020. The 33-year-old concluded his career at the ATP 250 event in Buenos Aires in February.

Fernando Verdasco
After playing his final singles match in 2023, Fernando Verdasco returned to action for the final time in February in Doha, partnering Novak Djokovic in doubles.

In a storied career spanning more than 20 years, the Spaniard won seven ATP Tour singles titles and lifted trophies on his home soil in Valencia (2004) and Barcelona (2010). Verdasco has shown impressive longevity by peaking at No. 7 in the PIF ATP Rankings and amassing over 500 tour-level wins (559). Verdasco also helped his country to three Davis Cup titles (2008, 2009 and 2011) and played a leading role in the first trophy.

“The biggest [memory] Verdasco said: “I won the Davis Cup for my country, I won it three times. Of these three, the most special one was in Argentina, when I scored the fourth point against Acasuso in the final and I won for my country.”

Verdasco has gone down in history by reaching the semi-finals of the 2009 Australian Open. The southpaw defeated Radek Stepanek, Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on his way to the semi-finals before battling Rafael Nadal for five hours and 14 minutes in one of the greatest matches in history.

Verdasco also excelled in doubles, finishing his career with Djokovic in Doha. He won eight doubles titles, including the 2013 Nitto ATP Finals with David Marrero, and climbed to No. 8 in the PIF ATP Doubles Ranking.

Christopher Eubanks
The American made global headlines in 2023, reaching the quarter-finals at Wimbledon with his brand of “big man tennis”. Eubanks, who won his first and only ATP Tour title in Mallorca in June, defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in London to reach the quarterfinals. However, he struggled to reach this level over the past two years and ended his career in November.

“If you told this little boy from south Atlanta that he would accomplish what he did, he wouldn’t believe you,” Eubanks wrote on social media. “Two-time ACC winner Player of the Year? No chance at Wimbledon. I have the opportunity to travel the world and make incredible connections while living my lifelong dream. It’s hard to say for sure, but if it is, hooray!”

Eubanks made her Tour debut in Atlanta in 2015 and reached a career-high No. 29 in the PIF ATP Rankings in 2023.

Nicholas Mahut
In 25 years on the ATP Tour, Nicolas Mahut has built a career that would be the envy of any player. The Frenchman has won 37 tour-level doubles titles, including two Nitto ATP Finals crowns and five Grand Slam titles with long-term partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert. He rose to No. 1 in the PIF ATP doubles rankings and won the Davis Cup for France.

In singles, he won four titles but is best remembered for his record-breaking epic match against John Isner at Wimbledon in 2010, which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes over three days. The American team defeated Mahut 70-68 in the fifth set.

“I found a way to be connected to Wimbledon forever and that’s the greatest thing for me [tournament] Mahut, who won Wimbledon in 2016, told ATPTour.com in October. “This year, when I walked down the aisle with my son, he finally saw his name because it was his, too. It gave me a little bit of pride, and ultimately to me there’s nothing more beautiful than that.”

Denis Kudela
Sixteen years after turning professional at the age of 16, Denis Kudla ended his career at the Confederations Cup in January, surrounded by his compatriots. The 33-year-old helped the United States to victory in the mixed team event, teaming with Desira Krawczyk over the Czech Republic.

“Last night was so emotional. I would say I cried a lot. I’m not a crier. I didn’t expect the emotion to take over. I thought that game was just about going out there and just participating and competing,” Kudela said after the victory alongside Desira Krawchik. “But then it turned into a special moment. I didn’t think I would retire in a stadium, a very packed stadium, and represent the country, which means everything to me.”

Kiev-born Kudela has climbed to a career-high No. 53 in the PIF ATP Rankings and has played against all the top players on the world’s biggest stages. The nine-time ATP Challenger Champion faces Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and others.

Vasek Pospisil
Pospisil ended his career in his hometown in July at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Toronto, 12 years after his breakthrough semifinal run at the same event.

“It’s just [been] An incredible journey. To be honest, I’m grateful [for] My career, the opportunities the sport has given me, the people I’ve met along the way, they’ve been my lifelong friends,” Pospisil said during a postgame ceremony in Toronto. “Coming from a small town in British Columbia, it felt like a daydream at the time, it felt like a completely different world. One thing leads to another, you start progressing and playing in some small tournaments, bigger tournaments, and all of a sudden you’re here. Sometimes it’s easy to lose perspective that this truly is a dream come true for me. “

Pospisil’s singles ranking reached a career-high No. 25 and doubles ranking No. 4. He won Wimbledon with Jack Sock in 2014, lifting a total of seven ATP Tour doubles trophies.

Albert Ramos-Vinolas

Albert Ramos-Vinolas lost to Britain’s Jan Choinski 6-4, 7-5 in the quarter-finals of the ATP Challenger Tour in Valencia in October, surrounded by family and hometown fans, ending his dazzling career.

The Spaniard, who turned professional in 2007, has won four ATP Tour titles in Bastad in 2016, Gstaad in 2019, Estoril in 2021 and Córdoba in 2022, as well as reaching eight finals, including one at the 2017 Rolex Monte Carlo Masters. It was in that game that he scored the biggest win of his career. Andy Murray, then world number one, in the Round of 16.

These wins helped the southpaw climb into the top 20 and peaked at No. 17 in the 2017 PIF ATP Rankings.