Prior to this week, Richard Gasquet’s last win over one of the top two players in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings was at the 2005 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, when he was 18 years old, beating then-World No. 1 Swiss Roger Federer. However, the Frenchman has once again scored this Tuesday at the ATP 250 in Geneva a win against a Top-2 player.
The current World No. 75 put in a fantastic performance to edge out World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 7-6(5) to move into the quarterfinals of the Gonet Geneva Open, where he will now meet. to the Pole Kamil Majchrzak.
Medvedev was playing his first game since Miami in March after undergoing hernia surgery. And he showed glimpses of his potential by forcing a tie-break in the second set after trailing 2-6, 1-3 on the scoreboard. However, Gasquet ended up being superior in all lines.
The former World No. 7 won six games in a row from 2-2 in the first set to take the reins of the encounter and, despite Medvedev’s late reaction to level the second set, it was the Frenchman who remained more consistent. in the tiebreaker to bring the ATP Head2Head record to 2-2 with Medvedev.
The 35-year-old right-hander, who is playing in this Swiss event for the first time, was coming off a 6-3, 6-1 win over John Millman in the first round. For a place in the semifinals he will meet Majchrzak, after the Pole defeated Italian Marco Cecchinato 6-2, 6-3. Cecchinato, coming from the previous phase, had beaten Dominic Thiem in the first round.
In other results on the day, Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis earned his first win on clay in seven years with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Italy’s Fabio Fognini. His next rival will be the Argentine Federico Delbonis.
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Another Australian to pull off an impressive victory was Christopher O’Connell defeating Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-6(5), 6-4. This result cites him in the second round with the fourth seed, the American Reilly Opelka. In addition, the Portuguese Joao Sousa beat the 2021 semifinalist, the Spanish Pablo Andújar 6-1, 6-4.
His next opponent in Switzerland will be the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili. The fifth seed advanced after Tuesday’s opponent, Argentina’s Facundo Bagnis, withdrew from their first-round clash with Basilashvili leading 6-4.
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