By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Monday, January 6, 2025
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Richard Gasquet bid farewell to Oz with gratitude.
The 38-year-old Frenchman paused to signal autographs for followers after falling to Duje Ajdukovic 7-6(4), 6-3 within the Australian Open first spherical of qualifying. It’s the ultimate Melbourne match of Gasquet’s profession.
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Former world No. 7 Gasquet has 606 profession wins, captured 16 Tour-level titles and earned greater than $21 million in prize cash in a powerful profession. Gasquet introduced he’ll retire on the 2025 Roland Garros.
“Thanks for the various years of entertaining us in Melbourne and we want you all the perfect in retirement,” the Australian Open posted on its social media channels.
Richard Gasquet’s Australian Open profession involves a detailed 👏Thanks for the various years of entertaining us in Melbourne and we want you all the perfect in retirement 💙 pic.twitter.com/Npf7T9fHhh
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 6, 2025
“I feel that it’s the greatest second for me to do it,” Gasquet informed French every day L’Equipe of his deliberate Roland Garros retirement. “It’s the greatest event to do it. It is magnificent, we have now the prospect being French to have the ability to cease in these sort of unimaginable locations.
“An finish, it is at all times sophisticated, all the previous nice gamers at all times informed me it is not straightforward to announce. You by no means know when, how, the place. Right here, in any case, it’s apparent.”
Gasquet’s 606 profession match wins are most by a Frenchman within the Open Period.
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