By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, October 11, 2024Photo credit score: Matthew Stockman/Getty
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 taking part in the 2025 Roland Garros, he informed French publication L’Equipe
“I believe that it’s the finest second for me to do it,” Gasquet informed French each day L’Equipe. “It’s the finest event to do it. It is magnificent, we now have the possibility being French to have the ability to cease in these sort of unimaginable locations.
“An finish, it is all the time difficult, all the previous nice gamers all the time informed me it isn’t 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 remaining 4 in 2013 and completed 4 seasons ranked contained in the world’s High 10
