Facing Flavio Cobolli, 32nd in the world, Richard Gasquet will begin his seventeenth Paris-Bercy tournament on Tuesday October 29. At 38, the Biterrois, former 7th player in the world, joins Novak Djokovic at the top of the ranking of players who have taken part in the greatest number of editions of the Parisian tournament.
Semi-finalist in 2007
The Frenchman, who announced his retirement at the end of Roland-Garros 2025, took advantage of Djokovic’s package to join him. Twenty-one years after his first participation in 2003, Gasquet will bid farewell to the public at Bercy. In a still very hot atmosphere, the Frenchman with sixteen titles on the ATP circuit will want to treat himself to a nice last stand.
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This is not, however, a tournament that was extremely successful for the Frenchman. In 2007, “Richie” was at the top of his form and after reaching a semi-final at Wimbledon (lost to Roger Federer), he repeated the performance at Bercy. Beaten by David Nalbandian, Gasquet still qualified for the end-of-season Masters. The Frenchman subsequently only made two other quarter-final appearances in the Paris tournament, in 2013 and 2015.
