{"id":74789,"date":"2024-10-17T23:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T03:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=74789"},"modified":"2024-10-17T23:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T03:37:42","slug":"danielle-collins-delay-retirement-will-play-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/10\/17\/danielle-collins-delay-retirement-will-play-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Collins to Delay Retirement, Will Play in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Collins isn&#8217;t calling it a career just yet.<\/p>\n<p>After planning for her retirement at the end of the 2024 season, the 30-year-old American will return to the WTA Tour in 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBPw9P7PaCP\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a post<\/a> uploaded to her social media pages.<\/p>\n<p>Collins had cited ongoing issues with\u00a0endometriosis, a uterus condition, as one of her reasons for retiring. She openly discussed the condition with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/wta-tennis-news-danielle-collins-never-ending-physical-agony-prompts-a-saddening-pharmaceuticals-dream-remark\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fans and the media in recent months,<\/a>\u00a0while also stating that she wanted to start a family.<\/p>\n<p>Various injuries and endometriosis affected her decision to continue playing on the WTA Tour, according to her post.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While I was very excited and eager to wrap up my tennis career on a high note this year and jump headfirst into my next chapter of life, things have not gone as planned,&#8221; Collins wrote. She had previously planned to retire at the Billie Jean King Cup this November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Collins first announced her retirement at a press conference after a second-round loss at the 2024 Australian Open. Her form <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/03\/29\/danielle-collins-one-final-shot-at-glory-before-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">then improved<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 the American won her biggest career title at the Miami Open in March and won another title one week later at the Credit One Charleston Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her Grand Slam appearances in 2024 didn&#8217;t go entirely to plan, as Collins compiled a 5-4 record and lost in the first round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a>. But her ranking re-entered the Top 10 after her consecutive title victories, and she holds a 38-16 record for the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"UXSUurI_SZ5J1katzlvsrA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2168849337\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'UXSUurI_SZ5J1katzlvsrA',sig:'YdRuiYMlSucw4hWSGmmg38QlXWaGJbHoLj55-MngJ9k=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2168849337',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Collins will play in the United Cup as her first tournament in 2025 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedcup.com\/en\/media\/news\/united-cup-2025-initial-player-field-announced\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the United Cup website<\/a> confirmed that Collins is one of the three Team USA female participants alongside Coco Gauff and Desirae Krawczyk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is unknown what other tournaments Collins plans to play.<\/p>\n<p>Collins wrote in her post that she has &#8220;recently been seeing a handful of specialists to better understand what my best path forward is to achieve my ultimate dream, starting a family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While there are no guarantees in life, I hope to build on my 2024 momentum and keep playing until there is more certainty around my personal fertility journey,&#8221; Collins wrote. &#8220;The only guarantee for now will be some more epic matches.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Main Photo Credit: Geoff Burke &#8211; USA TODAY Sports<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Collins isn&#8217;t calling it a career just yet. After planning for her retirement at the end of the 2024 season, the 30-year-old American will return to the WTA Tour in 2025, according to a post uploaded to her social media pages. Collins had cited ongoing issues with\u00a0endometriosis, a uterus condition, as one of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4624,"featured_media":65501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[807,2773,364],"class_list":["post-74789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta","tag-american-tennis","tag-danielle-collins","tag-wta-tour"],"modified_by":"Shane Black","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}