{"id":65580,"date":"2026-09-04T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/65580\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:53:43","slug":"gael-monfils-reveals-drastic-career-change-after-us-open-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/65580\/","title":{"rendered":"Gael Monfils reveals drastic career change after US Open loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/01\/sports\/tennis-star-gael-monfils-to-retire-after-2026-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gael Monfils is hanging up his tennis racket<\/a> and picking up a calculator with his new desk job.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old tennis player is long past his prime, after having been rated as high as the No. 6 player in the world in 2016, but is now ranked No. 311.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that upon his retirement later this year, he will take a new role in finance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a new chapter coming. Next year. I\u2019ll be working in finance,\u201d Monfils said after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/03\/sports\/gael-monfils-gets-emotional-us-open-farewell-before-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing to Learner Tien in the second round of the US Open on Thursday night.<\/a> \u201cI already signed to work in wealth management in a Swiss company.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40664523\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gael-monfils-france-holds-gift-139555342.jpg\" alt=\"Gael Monfils holds up a framed gift with his image on it at the U.S. Open.\" class=\"wp-image-40664523\"\/>Gael Monfils was defeated at the US Open to end his legendary Grand Slam career.  AP Photo\/Adam Hunger<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy next chapter is looking more in an office and working in finance. I will always have a look on tennis because I love the sport; my wife\u2019s playing. I don\u2019t think next year I will do so much about tennis. I\u2019ll be around no matter what, for Elina a little bit, but I\u2019ll be more of a finance guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monfils\u2019 wife, Elina Svitolina, is still one of the top players on the women\u2019s side of the sport \u2014\u00a0ranked No. 9 and playing in the third round of the US Open on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40664530\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-monfils-final-match-us-139549649.jpg\" alt=\"Gael Monfils holding a microphone at the 2026 US Open Tennis Championships.\" class=\"wp-image-40664530\"\/>Gael Monfils revealed he will join a wealth management company.  Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>That connection will keep him close to the game for the time being. The couple shares a 3-year-old daughter, Skai, who led Svitolina to step away from the sport for a time.<\/p>\n<p>Monfils, known for his flash and shotmaking, made over $25 million in his playing career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monfils lost lost 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 to the rising American Tien with an on-court ceremony to celebrate his long career.<\/p>\n<p>He spent 1,000 weeks inside the top 100, joining Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andre Agassi as the only players to do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gael Monfils is hanging up his tennis racket and picking up a calculator with his new desk job.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[261,50,28,616],"class_list":["post-65580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-gael-monfils","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-open-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}