France, Aug. 26 -- Former French number one Caroline Garcia retired from the women's tour on Tuesday following a first-round defeat at the US Open in New York.

World number 85 Kamilla Rakhimova beat the 31-year-old 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in two hours and 17 minutes to bring the curtain down on a14-year career.

Following her last match as a professional, Garcia was presented with a trophy celebrating her time on the circuit by the US Open tournament director Stacey Allaster and Gilles Moretton, the boss of the French tennis federation (FFT).

"Tennis brought me so much," Garcia told spectators on Court 6 at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.

"There were some great emotions and some tough ones but it shaped me to become the p...