Legendary tennis player Rafael Nadal makes emotional announcement

Legendary tennis player Rafael Nadal has announced the end of his career.

On Oct. 10, the Spanish star took to social media, revealing to his fans that he will play his last match in November during the Davis Cup finals, an international team championship he’s won four times.

“The reality is that it has been some difficult years, these last two especially,” Nadal explained, alluding to the many injuries he’s dealt with over the last few years.

“I don’t think I have been able to play without limitations. It is obviously a difficult decision, one that has taken me some time to make,” he told his fans as clips of him playing over the years flashed intermittently.

“But in this life,” he continued, “everything has a beginning and an end. And I think it is the appropriate time to put an end to a career that has been long, and much more successful than I could have ever imagined.”

Nadal was just 15 years old when he turned pro in 2001. Now, at 38, he is widely considered one of the most prolific tennis players in modern times.

He has won 22 Grand Slam singles titles over the last 23 years, the second most in men’s tennis, including 14 French Open titles, more than any other tennis player in history.

He also holds the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era. From April 2005 to May 2007, Nadal won 81 consecutive matches on clay, ESPN reported.

His streak came to an end on May 27, 2007, when Roger Federer took home the win in the Hamburg Masters final.

Nadal also won gold in men’s singles at the 2008 Olympics and in men’s doubles at the 2016 Olympics.

He won a total of 92 titles and spent 209 weeks at No. 1 in the rankings.