– Richard Gasquet will retire after Roland-Garros
The French player, aged 39, wants to put an end to his successful career on Parisian clay. He had caused a sensation on the courts at the age of 15.
Published today at 7:33 a.m.
Richard Gasquet in 2022 at the US Open.
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French tennis player Richard Gasquet, aged 38, will retire after the Roland-Garros tournament in May or June 2025, he announces in an interview published in the newspaper “The Team” this Thursday.
“I am announcing to you that I will stop at Roland-Garros (May 25 – June 8, 2025) next year. I think this is the best time for me to do it. This is the best tournament to do it. It’s magnificent, we’re lucky being French to be able to stop in these kinds of incredible places,” explains Gasquet.
Racquet genius
“I will be almost 39 years old, a canonical age, I would never have imagined playing so much starting so young,” adds the Frenchman who will therefore stop after 23 years of career, he who turned professional in 2002 at only 15 years old. This racquet genius, on the front page of “Tennis Magazine” at the age of 9, caused a sensation by winning his first match on the main circuit in Monte-Carlo at the age of 15 against the Argentinian Franco Squillari.
With his silky one-handed backhand, Richard Gasquet has won 16 tournaments on the main circuit, the last in Auckland (New Zealand) in January 2023. He reached 7th world ranking in 2007.
A “musketeer” without a grand slam
Like the three other “musketeers” of French tennis (Gaël Monfils, still a player, Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, retired), Gasquet will not have succeeded in lifting a Grand Slam trophy.
He reached three semi-finals at Major: at Wimbledon in 2007, eliminated by Roger Federer, at the US Open in 2013, beaten by Rafael Nadal, then again at Wimbledon in 2015, eliminated by Novak Djokovic.
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