Richard Gasquet, 38, will retire after Roland Garros, in May or June 2025as revealed in an interview published this Thursday in the newspaper ‘L’Equipe’.
“I announced that I will stop at Roland Garros (May 25 to June 8, 2025) next year. I think this is the best time to do it. This is the best contest to do it. “It’s amazing, and we’re lucky as French people to stop in these kinds of incredible places,” explained the French tennis player.
“I will be almost 39 years old, a canonical age, and I never thought I would play so much when I started so young“added the Frenchman, who retired after 23 years of career, after turning professional in 2002, at the age of just 15. This racket genius, who was on the cover of Tennis Magazine at the age of 9, caused a sensation when he won he. his first fight on the main circuit, in Monte Carlo, at the age of 15, against Argentine Franco Squillari.
With that silky one-handed backhand, Richard Gasquet has won 16 major circuit tournaments, the last in Auckland (New Zealand) in January 2023. He reached number 7 in the world in 2007.
Like the other three ‘musketeers’ of French tennis (Gaël Monfils, still active, Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, retired), Gasquet was unable to lift a Grand Slam trophy.
He reached three semifinals of major tournaments: at Wimbledon in 2007, eliminated by Roger Federer, and at the US Open in 2013, defeated by Rafa Nadal.
Source: La Verdad
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