There she was again, Angelique Kerber as we know her.
Fighting, not giving up a ball, and smashing it over the net with her powerful forehand.
This is how Kerber delighted her fans throughout her successful career.
She did the same in her quarter-final match at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games against Qinwen Zheng (CHN).
“I can’t do this anymore,” she said towards the end of the third movement, clearly audible to everyone.
Her body was exhausted, but her head still wanted and she kept fighting.
She fended off three match points – only then did she have to admit defeat to the eventual Olympic champion and Kerber’s career was over.
In her last match at Roland Garros, the 36-year-old once again showed everything that made her stand out.
After a fitting farewell in the German House, Kerber took time to process the events and realized one thing:
With Paris 2024, she had indeed chosen the perfect farewell stage.
“When I was born [meiner Tochter] “When asked why I wanted to return to the Tour, it was the love of the game and the emotion on the pitch that fans of our sport generate. That’s exactly what I experienced in Paris these last few days, which made it all worthwhile,” she wrote on Instagram.
The other German sports stars experienced something similar and chose the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as the last major highlight of their careers.
