He took a few weeks break and then played in Lyon where he was defending champion. 12 osób mówi o tym. [18], Gasquet started his 2013 season by capturing the Qatar Exxon Mobil Open in Doha. Richard Gasquet se une a Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer en un récord de clasificación El galo de 34 años se ha mantenido por un larguísimo tiempo entre los mejores del planeta English (US) 'Official ATP Tour videos on demand. “No words for this legend @rafaelnadal,” wrote Gasquet on Instagram. He then defeated Simone Bolelli and received a walkover into the semifinals following Andy Murray's withdrawal because of illness, where he was then defeated by David Ferrer. At the BNP Paribas Open, he defeated top-10 players Jürgen Melzer and Andy Roddick back to back. Gasquest's single-handed backhand is considered one of the most graceful, efficient and effective backhands ever. He lost in the quarterfinals of the US Open to Roger Federer and in the semifinals in Stockholm and Basel (to Jack Sock and Rafael Nadal respectively) before losing to Andy Murray in the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters. However, he lost both his singles rubbers in a quarterfinal tie versus Russia and suffered an abdominal injury in that tie which left him out of action for a month. Gasquet failed to qualify for the semifinals, finishing in third place in his group.[8]. Gasquet then defeated Potito Starace in the quarterfinals and Julien Benneteau in the semifinals. His best performance in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 singles tournaments was being the runner-up in Hamburg in 2005 and Toronto in 2006 and 2012. In this battle of France vs Italy, can Richard Gasquet get past Salvatore Caruso? Gasquet announces withdrawal He lost to Tsonga (whom he beat at Wimbledon) in the third round in straight sets. In October, he lost in the singles quarterfinals of three tournaments - Tokyo, Shanghai and Vienna. There, he faced and lost to fifth seed David Ferrer. Richard Gasquet and Jeremy Chardy were going head-to-head in an all-French showdown in the first round of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia before rain suspended play in Rome before its conclusion. Richard Gasquet has withdrawn from the upcoming Australian Open, the first grand slam of the tennis calendar due to a knee injury. He also generally plays far behind the baseline, which supports the slow buildup on his ground-strokes, but leaves him susceptible to drop-shots and angled shots. 7 as a result, his highest ranking to date. There, he beat Feliciano López in the first round, and Benjamin Becker in the second. Gasquet returned to Montpellier to defend his title at the Open Sud de France, but was defeated by Monfils in the final. Gasquet then made his first Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon. Gasquet started his 2014 season in the Qatar Exxon Mobil Open in Doha, where he was the defending champion. Richard Gasquet is a name that stands out not just in the category of tennis, but across the entire sporting world. He also has Lagardère Tags on his sleeves. He won that match, but fell to Mardy Fish. He posted a picture with Nadal on his Instagram story and called him a ‘legend’. He received a bye in the first round, and then defeated compatriot Michaël Llodra, before losing to Fernando Verdasco in the third round. For his overgrip, he uses the Tourna Grip, which he double grips at only the bottom half of his racquet's handle, since he hits his backhand with one hand. INTERVIEW. Gasquet started the second half of the year badly, losing in the singles first round at Wimbledon and the US Open, and the singles second round in Montreal and Cincinnati. 3 seed Kei Nishikori in the semifinals. Gasquet defeated Olivier Rochus and Andreas Seppi in the Serbian Open, but lost to John Isner despite being two points away from victory and a break up in the final set. 1. He then entered the Medibank International in Sydney. Gasquet then played in a Challenger event in Bordeaux, where he defeated Thierry Ascione, Alex Bogdanovic, Olivier Rochus, and Florent Serra in straight sets, before defeating Michaël Llodra in the final. In September, he played on the ATP Challenger Tour for the first time since 2010, at the tournament in Szczecin, where he won the ninth ATP Challenger Tour singles title of his career. [17] At Wimbledon he lost in the fourth round to Florian Mayer and in the US Open he lost at the same stage to David Ferrer. #rg19 #paris” • … At the Tennis Masters Cup, Gasquet was defeated by Rafael Nadal in his first round-robin match. Log In. France defeated the United States in the final, after Gasquet and Mladenovic pulled off the decisive victory in the mixed doubles. At the next ATP Masters Series tournament in Key Biscayne, Florida, he lost in the first round to Dmitry Tursunov. Gasquet reached his first final of the season two weeks later at Estoril, but the up-and-coming Serbian player Novak Djokovic got the better of him in three sets. With this result, he made his return to the top 20 of the rankings. Gasquet came back from a set down to defeat Marc Gicquel in the first round. He then participated in the Davis Cup with Gilles Simon, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Gaël Monfils against the Czech Republic in the first round. Gasquet's form continued to improve heading towards the US Open, as he reached the final of the Masters Series event in Toronto, again being halted by Federer in three sets. Gasquet's best singles results from mid-February to the end of June were in ATP World Tour tournaments in Marseille, Halle and Eastbourne, losing in the singles semifinals of all three of them. In an interview in May 2020, Gasquet talked extensively about Nadal. At Gasquet's first grass court tournament of the season, the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club, he beat Simone Bolelli in the first round before losing to the third-seeded seed Milos Raonic in the second round. 'Official ATP Tour videos on demand. Unable to show Instagram photos. Fresh off of his win over Federer and having just beaten Paradorn Srichaphan in straight sets, the rising teen disappointingly lost against Andre Agassi in Rome. Gasquet had to miss the last two months of the season because of an elbow injury. He then reached the final of the Aegon International. And at the U.S. vs France World Group quarterfinal Davis Cup match, Gasquet lost in three sets to Blake in the opening round. In 2006, Gasquet had a slow start after a first-round defeat by Tommy Haas at the Australian Open. At the Monte-Carlo Masters, Gasquet advanced to the second round after a three-set win over Spain's Daniel Gimeno-Traver, but was defeated by Tomáš Berdych. He went on to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open, losing to Tommy Robredo in four sets. He is a big rugby fan, supporting his hometown team Béziers. 7) defeated Benoît Paire in the first round before he was forced to withdraw from his second round match against Nicolás Jarry because of injury to his abductors. He then had a straight-set win over American Taylor Dent in the second round and defeated second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals. His best performance in Grand Slam singles tournaments was reaching the semifinals of the 2007 and 2015 Wimbledon Championships and the semifinals of the 2013 US Open. See more of Richard Gasquet Officiel on Facebook. The French combination came back from two match points down to win the championship and deny the Bryan brothers ever winning the tournament. Serena Williams through easily in Australian Open tuneup. He missed the next two ATP Masters 1000 tournaments (Madrid and Rome) due to back injury. 7; Monte Carlo doubles final, 2009: Struggles with form and testing positive for cocaine, 2010: Return to form, sixth title, back to top 10, 2011: 250 career singles wins on the ATP Tour, 2012: Olympic Bronze in doubles, Hopman Cup & third Masters 1000 singles finals, 2013: Second Grand Slam singles semifinal, three ATP Tour singles titles, 2014: Struggles and injuries, Davis Cup final, 2015: Comeback, third Grand Slam singles semifinal, return to top 10, 2016: 13th and 14th ATP Tour singles titles, first French Open singles quarterfinal and injuries, 2018: 500th career singles win on the ATP Tour, withdrew from Davis Cup final, Grand Slam singles tournament performance timeline, top 10 for number of titles, finals and semifinals attained, http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/richard-gasquet/g628/overview, "The pronunciation by Richard Gasquet himself", ATP World Tour – Tennis Players – Richard Gasquet, "2005 Monte Carlo SF: Nadal defeats Gssquet 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-3", https://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news;_ylt=AmySpEw0ol9ygO3achDLetk4v7YF?slug=txstuttgarttennis&prov=st&type=lgns, "US Open: Richard Gasquet puts 'Cocaine Kiss' saga behind him", "Wimbledon 2013: Bernard Tomic stuns ninth seed Richard Gasquet to move into fourth round", http://www.millenniumestorilopen.com/en/news/kyrgios-photos-and-autographs-session, "Richard Gasquet withdraws from Australian Open with back injury", "Richard Gasquet, contraint à l'abandon : "J'ai ressenti comme des coups de couteau, "OLYMPICS - Richard Gasquet withdraws, Benoit Paire replaces him", http://www.tennisworldusa.org/news/news/Tennis_Interviews/38968/richard-gasquet-next-year-i-want-to-break-into-the-top10-again-/, http://www.tennisworldusa.org/news/news/Tennis_Interviews/39079/richard-gasquet-not-done-yet-i-still-have-ambitions-for-the-big-tournaments-/, "Tribute: Gasquet, 'Le Monsieur', Reaches Elite Status With 500th Win", "Richard Gasquet happy to reach 500 ATP win mark in Monaco", "Gasquet Defeats Countryman Chardy To Lift 15th Title", "Tournoi de Hambourg : Gaël Monfils éliminé au deuxième tour, Richard Gasquet blessé", "Richard Gasquet withdraws from the Davis Cup Final against Croatia", "Richard Gasquet undergoes successful groin surgery, should be back for clay", "Federer Routs Gasquet in Madrid Clay-Court Return", "Wimbledon: Gasquet deploys brutal elegance", "Andy Murray recovers to beat Richard Gasquet and reach semi-final", "Australia's Tomic edges Gasquet to reach last 16", "Gasquet the flawed genius must find his ruthless touch", https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/11729969/Wimbledon-2015-Richard-Gasquets-one-handed-backhand-is-a-thing-of-beauty.-It-is-simply-balletic.html, http://www.optimumtennis.net/richard-gasquet-backhand.htm, http://tennis.about.com/od/playersmale/ss/gasquetbackhand.htm, https://www.eurosport.com/tennis/barclays-dubai-tennis-championships-2/2011/fed-reaches-dubai-final_sto2681335/story.shtml, "Richard Gasquet hopes new kit will help him succeed at Australian Open", http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Top-Players/Richard-Gasquet.aspx, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4FxjquE4rQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lpd_f5PrFE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miHWXipx-ac, ITF Press release: CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) decision in the case of Richard Gasquet, with link of PDF document, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Gasquet&oldid=1005929467, Tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles, Knights of the National Order of Merit (France), French expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland, Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles, Articles with French-language sources (fr), ITF template using Wikidata property P8618, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 February 2021, at 03:31. He would finish the remainder of the season on a high note. Second round Wednesday !! He was ousted by the defending and eventual champion Novak Djokovic in the semifinals in straight sets. His next tournament was the BNP Paribas Open Masters 1000 in Indian Wells. However, in the fourth round, he was defeated by Roger Federer. Then, in a controversial move, he opted out of a key reverse-singles match against Andy Roddick. Gasquet withdrew from both the Movistar Open and the Brasil Open because of a recurring injury, but returned at the Copa Telmex, where he lost in the first round to Juan Ignacio Chela. In February, he made the quarterfinals in Rotterdam, before losing to Nikolay Davydenko in straight sets. This ended his best run in Wimbledon since 2007, where he reached the semifinals as well. The following week in Gstaad, as defending champion, he beat Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo and avenged his Roland Garros loss to Kristof Vliegen, but lost in the quarterfinals to Igor Andreev. Biography Tennis star Richard Gasquet is the greatest tennis player in the history of the sport, and that success […] Gasquet won his singles rubber against Taro Daniel in France's Davis Cup World Group 4-1 first round win over Japan. 27. Gasquet made his Grand Slam tournament debut at the 2002 French Open at the age of 15 years, 11 months and nine days. In Indian Wells, he lost his first match to Albert Ramos. In 2004, he reached his first ATP Tour singles final in Metz, losing to his countryman Jérôme Haehnel in straight sets. That match had the honour of being the latest starting match in the history of the Australian Open with a start time of 11.58pm. Coached by Riccardo Piatti, Gasquet kicked off his 2012 season by competing at the 2012 Hopman Cup alongside top-10 WTA pro Marion Bartoli. This aspect of his game in particular has been lamented by his fans around the globe, who see him as being too set in his ways to change this aspect of his approach to the detriment of his results against the best players in the world, who can easily take advantage of it.