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Richard Gasquet is a renowned French professional tennis player. Richard Gasquet has won 15 singles titles on the ATP Tour.
Early life
In June 18, 1986, Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet was born in Béziers, France. From now on he is already 35 years old and his zodiac sign is Gemini.
His parents are Serignan Gasquet and Maryse Gasquet. Her parents were tennis teachers and ran a local tennis club.
Due to his parents’ influence, he started playing tennis at the age of 4. At age 9, he was touted as a future champion. He appeared on the cover of the February 1996 issue of French Tennis magazine.
Caption: Richard Gasquet in his childhood photo with his parents. Source (Instagram)
Richard Gasquet – Career
At the age of 17, Richard Gasquet played in the Metz final, his first ATP Tour Singles. Unfortunately, he lost to Jérôme Haehnel.
In 2005, he accomplished a lot during that time despite missing the first seven weeks of the season due to chickenpox. He won match after match in the Challenger titles while recovering.
In the Monte Carlo Master Series Tournament, he also defeated the then world number one, Rodger Federer.
Subtitle: Richard Gasquet after winning a match. Source (Instagram)
He soon became the youngest French player to beat the number one player in the world. Unfortunately, he lost the competition to Rafael Nadal. At the French Open in 2005, he also won his first Grand Slam title.
Additionally, he won his ATP Tour singles for the first time when he turned 19. During the 2 months of the season he suffered an elbow injury and could not play.
At the 2006 Australian Open, he lost to Tommy Hass. Meanwhile, he evened the Davis Cup score, where Richard beat Tommy.
He defended his title in Nottingham, even having a disappointing first half of the season. And unfortunately, he lost his first match at Wimbledon against Roger Federer.
In the second half of the season he returned with an improvement. Later, he moved on to the US Open and Canadian Open and lost again to Federer.
On the indoor carpet in Lyon, he won his third ATP Tour Singles title. In a single year, he completed the achievement of reaching the ATP singles finals on all four surfaces.
More about career
In 2007, he reached world No. 7, which was his highest ranking of all time in the ATP ranking structure. At the Australian Open he also reached the fourth round.
For the first time at Wimbledon he reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam. Thus, he defeated Andy Roddick and it was one of the best Wimbledon quarterfinals.
Likewise, he lost in the semifinals to Federer. Unfortunately, in 2007 he was unable to participate in the US Open due to a virus. Meanwhile, he won his fifth ATP title defending against Olivier Rochus.
Furthermore, at the Tokyo ATP tournament he reached the final. After a few weeks of rest, she soon returned to Lyon, after a few weeks of rest.
During that time, he was the defending champion but lost the title to Tsonga. At the Paris Masters they met again where Gasquet beat Tsonga in the second round.
Gasquet defeated another world number one, Andy Murray. Hence he lost to David Nalbandian in the quarterfinals. Later, he qualified for the Tennis Masters Cup.
However, in the first round he was defeated by Rafael Nadal. And he defeated Novak Djokovic and lost to David Ferrer, in the game.
He also lost matches in the Mercedes Cup, the US Open and the ATP Tour Singles. She was seen participating in the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Therefore, she represented France and played in both singles and doubles.
Outstanding careers
Unfortunately, he did not win any medals in the men’s singles category. At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, she intended to play. He later decided to play the US Open.
Therefore, he began preparing for the 2008 US Open and opted out of the Olympics. Furthermore, he is currently playing in the Croatian Open and is also not in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Likewise, he was preparing for Wimbledon and the Swedish Open.
Subsequently, he played in the Australian Open, Sony Ericsson Open, Abierto Mexicano Telcel tournament, BNP Paribas Open, and French Open, to name a few.
In 2013, due to multiple injuries, defeats and shortcomings, he lost his top ten in the ATP ranking and returned to 27th place. Later, he made his leap and reached the quarterfinals of the US Open.
Therefore, he also reached the fourth round of the French Open. He then aimed to return to the top 10 in 2017. He made a statement that he wanted to focus more on the biggest tournaments.
Richard Gasquet – Personal Life
According to sources, Richard Gasquet is not married yet and kept his personal life private. For this reason, he was suspended from playing tennis.
It was after traces of cocaine were detected in his system in a urine sample taken in March 2009. Thus, the court committee concluded that “
“The cocaine entered his system through involuntary contamination in a nightclub.” Gasquet explained that when he French kissed a stripper at a Miami nightclub, cocaine may have entered his son.
Richard Gasquet – Body Measurement
Richard Gasquet is handsome. He is very tall and stands 6 feet Tall and his weight is unknown. And the tennis player has brown hair and pairs of dark brown eyes.
Subtitle: Richard Gasquet, tall and handsome. (Source: Instagram)
He has an Instagram account called @RichardGasquet34 and has 139,000 followers. Furthermore, on his Twitter account named @RichardGasquet1, he has 126.2 thousand followers.
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