By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, October 11, 2024
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As a shotmaker, Richard Gasquet personified French flair.
Fittingly, Gasquet will say farewell to tennis at the French Open.
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The 38-year-old Gasquet will retire after playing the 2025 Roland Garros, he told French publication L’Equipe
“I think that it is the best moment for me to do it,” Gasquet told French daily L’Equipe. “It is the best tournament to do it. It’s magnificent, we have the chance being French to be able to stop in these kind of incredible places.
“An end, it’s always complicated, all the former great players always told me it’s not easy to announce. You never know when, how, where. Here, in any case, it is obvious.”
Former world No. 7 Gasquet has won 605 matches, 16 ATP titles and more than $21 million in prize money over the course of a distinguished 22-year career.
The man with the wondrous one-handed backhand is a former junior world No. 1.
Gasquet’s 605 career wins are most of any Frenchman in the Open Era.
A two-time Wimbledon semifinalist, Gasquet also reached the US Open final four in 2013 and finished four seasons ranked inside the world’s Top 10
