French tennis player Richard Gasquet is calling it quits after next year’s French Open. The Frenchman was on the tour for over two decades.
Richard Gasquet has announced his resignation. – keystone
The most important thing in brief
- After the French Open next year, Richard Gasquet will end his career.
- The 38-year-old Frenchman is currently number 133 in the world.
- He won 16 titles in his career.
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Richard Gasquet announces his imminent retirement. The former French tennis prodigy will end his career after the French Open next year. He explained this in the French newspaper “L’Equipe”.
The 38-year-old Gasquet has been fighting for a place in the top 100 of the world rankings for months. The former world number seven, now ranked 133, reached the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament three times: at Wimbledon in 2007 and 2015 and at the US Open in 2013. He won 16 titles, the first in 2005 in Nottingham and the last in 2023 Auckland.
Additionally, Richard Gasquet remains the youngest player to win a match on the tour. In 2002, at the age of 15, he won in Monte Carlo against the Argentine Franco Squillari.
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