{"id":66495,"date":"2026-09-05T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/66495\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:07:55","slug":"us-open-star-with-18-5m-in-prize-money-quits-tennis-for-office-job-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/66495\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open star with \u00a318.5m in prize money quits tennis for office job | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gael Monfils has a job in finance lined up as he prepares to retire from tennis. The former US Open semi-finalist is preparing for his life after the <\/a>sport <\/a>as he nears the end of his final season on the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n

The French ace has exited the US Open<\/a> in the second round after losing to American Learner Tien in straight sets. The 40-year-old, who announced his retirement plans last year<\/a>, reached the final four at Flushing Meadows in 2016, equalling his best-ever major performance at the 2008 French Open. Former world No.6 Monfils<\/a> will continue to support his wife Elina Svitolina\u2019s tennis career once he retires but is set to start an office job in a completely new industry after his playing days are over.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a new chapter coming. Next year. I’ll be working in finance,\u201d Monfils said when asked about his plans in retirement. \u201cI already signed to work in wealth management in a Swiss company.<\/p>\n

\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’s playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think next year I will do so much about tennis. I’ll be around no matter what, for Elina a little bit, but I’ll be more of a finance guy.”<\/p>\n

Monfils is accustomed to managing his own riches after earning an eye-watering \u00a318.5million in prize money throughout his career, according to the ATP<\/a>. He has won 13 singles titles and places 25th on the all-time money list.<\/p>\n

Despite his reputation as a showman on the court, Monfils has insisted that it is only one aspect of his character. Explaining why he is well-suited to a wealth management job, Monfils admitted that he has a different personality at home with his family and is ready to enter the financial world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you should ask my wife, you would be surprised,\u201d Monfils continued. \u201cOf course, in tennis, I am the way I am but she can tell you that she wishes I was like this at home. I think at home I\u2019m a little bit more strict, more serious.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s completely different here. This is my joy place where I can let my emotions go and then I\u2019m really not flexible. I really like everything done straight away, a little bit maniac, so it fits for my next chapter and tennis is just completely different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gael Monfils has a job in finance lined up as he prepares to retire from tennis. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[822,25670,261,28,2590,616,25671],"class_list":["post-66495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-finance-career","tag-gael-monfils","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-retirement","tag-us-open-tennis","tag-wealth-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495","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=66495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}