On what date did Rafael Nadal retire from professional tennis?

Rafael Nadal retired from professional tennis on 19 November 2024.

The date marked his final professional match, when Spain faced the Netherlands in the Davis Cup Final 8 in Málaga. Spain’s elimination brought the 38-year-old Nadal’s more than two-decade career to an end, after he had announced his retirement plans the previous month.

Nadal finished with 22 major singles titles, including a record 14 French Open championships, and 92 ATP singles titles. He also spent 209 weeks as world No. 1 and became one of the defining members of men’s tennis’s “Big Three” alongside Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

The date can be confused with 10 October 2024, when Nadal announced his retirement, or with the Davis Cup event’s wider 19–24 November schedule. The actual last-match date—and the date recorded for his retirement—was 19 November.