Flimsy.Incidentally, whoever wins this gets to play Rafael Nadal. And gets it wrong. Across from the 24-year-old sat two former British police detectives. Proper football fans, who watch football all the time - it's hard to begrudge them their inflated hopes. He looks like a park player when he does that. In addition to reaching the #1 world ranking as a junior, he won his first ATP title on his 19th birthday shortly after becoming the youngest French player ever to beat … Another silly Murray drop shot at 30-0. The second … "I just couldn't afford playing any more and like my dad was paying for me, and then my dad has to pay for my brother as well, and then I wasn't getting any income," he says, the transcript shows. As in "ou est mon gasquet? The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Howls and squeals. Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 4-4G-Force sprints through another service game. And the ref says there's loads of light so get on with it. Some agreement from Richard Finch: "Thank goodness someone has finally said it. there's definitely an amusing headline in this somewhere. Do you surely understand?" I SAID CAN YOU HEAR ME SURREY?!! 30-40! Aahhh. Bosh. Credit to his opponent for that. Oh, yes. !He says. Richard Gasquet Born: 18/6/86. And why not. Gasquet, on the other hand, looks full of fizz. Intrigued by the offer, the player replies, "How much to lose?" "I am telling them I want to work with them. Gah. Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 5-4The break!G-Dawg powers to two break points. Top stuff from A-Mu, who'll feel it tomorrow. Grrr. It didn't really matter if he won or lost and after thinking it over Hossam decided to go ahead with it. As a non-jingoist, I've since stuck to Wimbledon dog-track. Holds his serve to 15 and pumps that fist like a ... well, nothing appropriate for a family audience suggests itself. On Monday Murray played his first singles match since career-saving hip surgery in January - a 6-4 6-4 loss to France's Richard Gasquet in Cincinnati. Just hit it, man. Fifth set: Murray 2-1 Gasquet Life in the old dog yet perhaps. Sometimes it involved losing a match, or on other occasions a single set. The documents reveal one of the largest match-fixing rings in tennis ever discovered, implicating more than 20 mostly North African players. Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 5-5Oh I say! He's like the Terminator. Gasquet waiting to serve it out, you feel.He he. A man with Gasquets … Like J-Lo. Howls. A couple of doozies drop doornail-dead on Richard Gasquet's side of the court. That's more like it. An incredible game with five break points. For a little dinner, I mean.Pizza would be nice. Strokes, alas, belong to the fng, clop, fssh era. He's beaten Murray the two times they've played. Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 1-1Murray very cool and businesslike as he takes a service game to 15. And no better time. In a series of interviews over six months he revealed how four years earlier he had become a part of one of the biggest match-fixing rings in tennis. Murray takes it with a hugely cathertic ace. Wap. Nigel Wilson asks: "Why has this Wimbledon been dominated by talk of "weapons", "big weapons" and "potent weapons"? Murray also looks a bit doddery now. More on Jingoism. Quite right. Second set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 4-1 Better from Murray, but this is still running away from him fast. In June 2017 the tennis anti-corruption authorities finally caught up with him. Can you hear me Surrey?! Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 2-5Another break. Gazza is toying with Murray here. © 2021 BBC. Murray played his first singles match since career-saving hip surgery in January - a 6-4 6-4 loss to France's Richard Gasquet in Cincinnati. That's French for choker isn't it?" Murray is visibly trying to pump himself up here, but the place is very quiet. Dan Smith slurs from his doorway: "When I dropped my crate of lager on the way into Wimbledon a few years back, causing 440ml cans to roll off in all directions, one of the grey-haired deckchair blazered right-wingers who masquerade as staff cut me down as he might normally have a fox or an immigrant. The 19-year-old Frenchman has enjoyed a sensational couple of months, overshadowed only by his contemporary Rafael Nadal. World ranking: 27. There's a policeman lurking near the far corner of the court who hasn't moved for ten minutes. Not yet it isn't. Why wear it at all? But he's looking puffed and stretched here. The documents seen by the BBC have been sent to the Tennis Integrity Unit, and the whistleblower who contacted the BBC is critical of the unit's response. The BBC contacted Karim Hossam to ask him about these messages and his contact with other players but he didn't respond. Gasquet is wielding a vast, bloody shank of Aberdeen Angus.He is putting his salami rapier to cunning use at times. They just like waving red white and blue tea towels around. He needs a surge. "They caught me in my room bro," he writes. Screams. But he also thought that if he had more money it would be easier to advance his career. Whiffle. And who would have thought it. Excitement builds over new Mars rover images, Harry and Meghan not returning to Royal Family, The country treating psychosis without drugs. He punches an imaginary adversary on the the floor Brett Lee-style. Don't write him off just yet. He's grooving. 30-15. Both brilliantly saved by Murray - one an ace, another a sprinting get at the net. And he hasn't got an entire Bon Jovi concert of squiffy Surrey housewives yelling at him while he's trying to remember what it was his visualisation technique adviser told him about walking down the path, opening the door (or was it unlocking the door and then opening it? Comes to the net to finish it. France's elite confronted by sexual abuse scandals. He's played a blinder in this set.Two set points for Gasquet at 15-40. Belts down some frankly lunatic wildman serves. "Do you want to lose the match and get $1,000 (£770)?" Not sure he has a nickname. But can he? Woooshhh. Andy Murray is satisfied with how he despatched Richard Gasquet to make the quarter-finals in stifling conditions and in front of royalty. 136.9k Followers, 491 Following, 171 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Richard Gasquet (@richardgasquet34) 2-0 down to 3-2 up. Ace. You lose first set then win the match. Earns a break point. Let's be 'avin' you. And he needs Gasquet to suffer a temporary fit of amnesia too. ", Listen to the full BBC Arabic/Radio 4 investigation, Can We Fix It?The Inside Story of Match-Fixing in Tennis, at 20:00 GMT on File on 4 on Tuesday 5 February. Listen to the full BBC Arabic/Radio 4 investigation, Can We Fix It? He ain't out here, that's for sure. Along with wooden bats and lemon barley water. He's the daddy now. Ping. In response to a couple of texters, the BBC online HD trial continues here if you want to watch this match in full high definition glory on this website. Second set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 3-0 The G-man is running away with this now. Or living in Surrey. Can the crowd? 30-30 Murray's got a taste for finishing it now quick smart. Fifth set: Murray 5-3 Gasquet Murray nets a smash from six inches. Then he somehow blusters his way through a succession of deuces and nicks the game. Gasquet has only won a handful of matches in the past couple of months, but is looking in relatively good nick here. Why does the England football team always start as joint 3rd favourites for every international tournament?". He's just got more shots right now. After the interview ends he messages his younger brother, Youssef, who is also a professional tennis player. Nationality: French. 30-15. Or whatever. The International Tennis Federation Futures tournament at Sharm el-Sheikh is a distant cousin to the glamour, money and crowds of Wimbledon or the French Open. First published on Mon 30 Jun 2008 05.38 EDT. What happens to your body in extreme heat? First set: Gasquet 4-4 MurrayFirst deuce of the match. But Gasquet surges to close it out. Then a successful one. Really shocking. Needs another adrenalin rush to close this out. Murray claws it to deuce, twice. Third set: Murray* 7-6, 6-3, 1-2 Gasquet For all that, Gasquet has fairly strolled through his last couple of service games. Both men lurking near the baseline and zinging off the ground strokes. The crowd's getting its money's worth all right. The 34-year-old Frenchman Richard Gasquet earned a massive ranking milestone on Monday, becoming the fourth active player with 800 consecutive weeks in the top-100! He's ablaze. says Tom Walling. Then double faults. Easy service game with one booming overhead winner. Boom. Ooooohhhh says centre court. Murray is clinging on with the painful pink part of his littlest finger nail. Some silly shots. How is Murray going to break this man? Also very foolish. One lovely Murray winner, but otherwise as John McEnroe says "this guy has got some serious pop on his serve". The player responds, "Score is not important. ", That wasn't how it turned out. The guy has probably the best one handed backhand on tour yet he's only ever managed to win ATP Masters 250 tournaments. ), smelling the flowers, etc etc. Silly hat, mind. It works for our footy team, does it not? Wallops the next one. Karim Hossam was one of the best young tennis players in the world. Posted at 18:15 8 Jul 2015 18:15 8 Jul 2015 Post update Solid.Gary Naylor asks: "How much does Murray want it? He's the fitter of the two right now. He ends with "imagine the pretentious nuances the BBC will ram down everyone's throats if Murray did progress beyond the QF". Murray to his credit is not giving up on this. That's what this match sounds like. It first came up in April 2007, when the French magazine Le Point reported on a rumor that the 21-year-old Gasquet was having an affair with 46-year-old married businessman Arnaud Lagardere. There's nothing that intimidates Johnny Foreigner more than a misplaced sense of provincial passion. First set: Gasquet 5-4 MurrayGasquet holds easily, despite the fact his shirt is almost falling off every time he serves. Murray suddenly roaring and shrieking like a gangly, bouffant, white-shorted 1950s B-movie werewolf. Andy Murray will return to singles competition for the first time since January when he faces Richard Gasquet at the Cincinnati Masters on Monday. Murray just needs to keep going. Fist pump. In the interests of balance - and variation - I'm now performing a 360 degree turn, climbing off the anti-Murraymania bandwagon and clambering in with the Go Muzza! Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 1-0Back to normality. The figures were always in dollars. Just Rafael Nadal to come now. Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 1-3Gasquet's blown a... Murrray's blowing Gasquet (no - wrong kind of tone). In July 2018 Karim Hossam was banned for life. He. Suddenly Murray's whacking it into the net. He's on fire. Once a year sports fans are up there with the Johnny come lately Chelsea fans who bang their chests singing "Chelsea 'till they die"". For all the great ball striking we have seen, it was a couple of sliced shots that have put Gasquet in this position." Fifth set: Murray 3-1 Gasquet A-Mu's in the zone. Horrible. Seeded: 27. To his credit, though, he really is fighting to the end. He's frighteningly tumescent as he zips to 40-15 on serve, Gasquet trudging about like swamp-dweller. Gasquet is imploding here There's a couple of desperation aces, a crazed charge to the net and still some zip in that backhand, but his … Challenge. Dinner time. He looks strong still. The fact is, Murray is up against it here and will have to really turn it on to get to the last eight. But you didn't hear that from me. Some early quite-right-too good sense from Suzanne Elliot: "What makes you think the women who wave "red white and blue tea towels around" only watch tennis for two weeks a year?". Gasquet is powering him off the court with four games in a row.Why does Murray even bother with the drop shots? Is. They were investigators for the Tennis Integrity Unit, which probes corruption within the game, and they suspected Karim had been fixing matches. Some scorching ground strokes from Gasquet there. Karim Hossam had already won the tournament four times when he arrived to compete there again in 2013. VideoThe dentist who helped a koala to walk. So what better time for some astute observation form Oliver Pattenden: "Murray's got a little Highland spring water logo on his shirt, why doesn't he just go the whole way and make it Walker's shortbread and Famous Grouse?"Mmm. Gasquet too good when it mattered. He's got him on a stick right now. I want to see Centre Court bedecked in Union Jacks draped over the perimeter - flags bearing the names of 'Rainworth Tennis Club' or 'Corby Town Tennis Centre'. Those are weapony noises. First on my list is Richard Gasquet, probably because I've watched his generation of tennis more than any other and seen him lose matches from winnable positions time after time. Most of the players in this match-fixing ring have not been sanctioned. Gasquers won't let up, relentlessly powerful ground strokes, a drop shot and then a big time thrashed backhand. Then another one! Therefore, while waiting for the new hearing, Richard will continue to prepare for his return to competition in the next few weeks." Love. He needs a lot more of that. Last month police in Spain arrested 15 people in a match-fixing ring said to involve 28 Spanish players linked to an Armenian gambling ring. Third set: Dimitrov 6-3, 6-2, 5-4 Gasquet* (*denotes server) Hats off to Richard Gasquet. Can he keep it up? And just to be completely clear - it was Richard, not me, who said the bit about the chest-banging Chelsea fans. lot. Could we? Dubai's royal family says she is "being cared for at home" after she accused them of holding her hostage. His power has dropped alarmingly. "I gave a lot of information. Everybody's a bit shaken up after that. It added that it couldn't comment on ongoing investigations as "public disclosure would inevitably alert suspects and allow credible evidence to be discarded or destroyed". Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 3-3Murray is out there with a teeny little greasy Pepperami stick in his hand. The crowd spontaneously emotes. That's a weird thought. Quiz of the week: What do you know about royal babies? Fizz. Pumps his fist. Days after he was interviewed by the Tennis Integrity Unit, Karim Hossam was provisionally banned from playing tennis.