After 14 US Open main draw singles appearances and 40 total Grand Slam singles appearances, New York City-born (and California raised) CoCo Vandeweghe is retiring as a US Open women’s doubles champion and singles semifinalist.
In addition to her 2018 New York title—won alongside now-retired Ashleigh Barty—the 31-year-old Vandeweghe has many other achievements to be celebrated.
She reached two Grand Slam singles semifinals, at the Australian Open and the US Open in 2017, and made two quarterfinals at Wimbledon. The American is a two-time women’s doubles semifinalist at the US Open (not including her trophy run), a two-time Wimbledon women’s doubles quarterfinalist, and a two-time Grand Slam mixed doubles finalist. Vandeweghe also clinched the Billie Jean King Cup—then Fed Cup—trophy for the United States in 2017.
She finished the 2017 season in the WTA's Top 10 and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 9 in January 2018. Her best doubles ranking came later that year, when she sat at No. 14. Throughout her career, Vandeweghe won two WTA singles titles, both in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (2014, 2016) and four tour-level doubles crowns, including Miami in 2018 with Barty, and Indian Wells in 2016 with Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
Vandeweghe was honored in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night, when a tribute video played to announce her retirement. She sat in the President’s Suite and shook hands with USTA President and Chairman of the Board Brian Hainline—but after watching the evening’s matches, she had to get ready to take the court the next day for her first-round women’s doubles match.
On Wednesday evening, she stepped on Court 9 with partner Sofia Kenin for her last match after the pair received a wild card to enter the women’s doubles main draw. The Americans lost to Cristina Bucsa and Alexandra Panova. Earlier in the event, Vandeweghe's singles career ended with a loss to Germany's Eva Lys in qualifying.
Vandeweghe closes her career with 341 tour-level singles wins and 125 doubles victories.
