A number of hours after Rafael Nadal’s retirement announcement, one other earthquake has shaken the ATP Tour: Richard Gasquet has introduced his official retirement from tennis, which is able to happen at Roland Garros 2025, the final match the French tennis participant will play.
Gasquet introduced his resolution in an interview with L’Equipe, throughout which he defined: “I feel it is one of the best time to do it. It is one of the best match to do it, we’re fortunate to be French to have the ability to cease in such unbelievable locations. I shall be nearly 39 years previous: I by no means imagined I’d play a lot beginning so younger. Saying cease is all the time sophisticated, all the previous nice gamers have typically advised me, it is not straightforward to announce it. You by no means know when, how, the place. I feel that is one of the best time for me to do it.”
Richard Gasquet.Roland-Garros 2025.𝐿𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑒̀𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑒. pic.twitter.com/bykC6lPmex
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Gasquet then added: “Tennis is not only about massive matches, it is visceral. After I received the Cassis Challenger a couple of weeks in the past I grew to become one of many three youngest and one of many three oldest to have received a Challenger title. That sums me up effectively.”
The Frenchman has received 16 ATP tournaments in his profession, together with the final in Auckland in January 2023. In 2007 he reached his greatest ATP rating, at quantity 7. He has reached three semifinals in Grand Slam tournaments: twice at Wimbledon and as soon as on the US Open. For him, L’Equipe hypothesizes, a future in tennis throughout the French Federation.
À 38 ans, Richard Gasquet annonce dans une interview à L’Équipe, disponible dans notre édition de ce jeudi, qu’il a décidé de mettre un terme à une carrière longue de 22 ans, à Roland-Garros, en mai 2025.https://t.co/ZBGF8tlm5p pic.twitter.com/6cm6hztrLL
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