By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, October 11, 2024
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As a shotmaker, Richard Gasquet personified French aptitude.
Fittingly, Gasquet will say farewell to tennis on the French Open.
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The 38-year-old Gasquet will retire after enjoying the 2025 Roland Garros, he informed French publication L’Equipe
“I believe that it’s the greatest second for me to do it,” Gasquet informed French each day L’Equipe. “It’s the greatest match to do it. It is magnificent, we’ve got 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 simple to announce. You by no means know when, how, the place. Right here, in any case, it’s apparent.”
Former world No. 7 Gasquet has received 605 matches, 16 ATP titles and greater than $21 million in prize cash over the course of a distinguished 22-year profession.
The person with the wondrous one-handed backhand is a former junior world No. 1.
Gasquet’s 605 profession wins are most of any Frenchman within the Open Period.
A two-time Wimbledon semifinalist, Gasquet additionally reached the US Open last 4 in 2013 and completed 4 seasons ranked contained in the world’s High 10
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