Stan Wawrinka

Stan Wawrinka won three Grand Slam singles titles, and he is now ending his career in Basel. He won the Australian Open in 2014, Roland-Garros in 2015 and the US Open in 2016 [5]. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 3 [1]. In January 2026 he announced that this would be his final season [5]. Swiss Indoors Basel has been presented as his farewell tournament [2].

Early years in Lausanne

Wawrinka was born on 28 March 1985 in Lausanne, Switzerland [5]. Tennis.com describes him as a Vaud-born Swiss player [3]. As a junior he won the boys' singles title at Roland-Garros in 2003 [5]. He later won the same tournament as a professional, on the same clay.

Official profiles do not agree on when his professional career began. The Australian Open profile gives 2002 as the year he turned professional [6]. The Roland-Garros profile gives 2004 in its text, a year after the junior title [5]. This page does not choose between them.

Three Grand Slam titles

In 2014 Wawrinka beat Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open final [5]. A year later he won Roland-Garros, beating Novak Djokovic in the final [5]. In 2016 he beat Djokovic again, this time in the US Open final [5]. Three titles, three different tournaments.

Over his career the ATP profile lists 16 singles titles [1]. The Australian Open and Roland-Garros profiles give 16 singles and three doubles titles [6] [5]. The Roland-Garros profile records a career singles record of 590 wins and 394 defeats, and career prize money of $38,742,890 [5].

Olympic and national honours

At the 2008 Beijing Games he won the men's doubles gold medal alongside Roger Federer [5]. He was also part of the Swiss team that won the Davis Cup in 2014 [5]. According to the ATP profile, he carried the Swiss flag at the 2012 London Olympics and was named Swiss of the Year in 2013 [1].

Injuries, a return and Magnus Norman

Magnus Norman is listed as his coach on the Roland-Garros and Australian Open profiles [5] [6]. In October 2022 in Basel, Wawrinka beat Casper Ruud in two sets. The report from that week said Norman had returned to his box after a long absence and would keep working with him, including at the Australian Open [7].

That report also noted that he had suffered injuries and an operation over the previous two years [7]. He said: "Coming back wasn't easy, I was struggling to get back in shape both physically and as a game" [7]. He wanted to close his book with Norman. Ideally, that would be with a result like the Basel win [7].

Basel as a recurring stage

Wawrinka has described the crowd support at the 2022 Swiss Indoors as the best memory he has of the event [8]. By October 2025 he had played his 70th ATP tournament match in Switzerland, his 36th at a home tournament [8]. That report recorded his ranking at the time as 150th. He said he still believed he could beat top-50 players, while accepting that not every day would go that way [8].

Playing on after 40

Ahead of the 2025 Basel event, he stressed how much recovery mattered at 40 [8]. He had opened that tournament with a two-set win over Miomir Kecmanovic and was due to face Casper Ruud or Quentin Halys in the round of 16 [8]. Tennis.com later reported that he reached the third round of the 2026 Australian Open and returned to the top 100 in February and March [3].

The final season and the Basel farewell

In May 2026 the Swiss Indoors Basel opened ticket pre-sales for a farewell evening [2]. The tournament's announcement read: "Basel marks the end of the line for three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka as he says goodbye to the game" [2]. It described the evening as "An emotional evening full of memories, surprises and magical moments" [2].

That farewell was set for Super Monday, 26 October 2026, at 6 p.m. Tennis.com also reported that he would be honoured at Roland-Garros, where he won the title in 2015 [3]. The 2026 Swiss Indoors runs from 24 October to 1 November as an ATP 500 event, its 55th edition [2].

A last tournament before the end

On 22 October 2026 he lost in the second round at Lyon to top seed Flavio Cobolli, 6-2, 6-4 [4]. That was his penultimate tournament. Basel is the last one [4]. A farewell exhibition in Geneva on 19 December has also been reported [4].

The outcome of his Basel matches and the tribute evening was not available in the sources used for this page, so the page does not describe them.