Richard Gasquet

Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet at Stoke Park in 2013
Nation:	France
Birthday:	June 18, 1986
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	79 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Fabrice Santoro Thierry Tulasne
Prize money:	$ 17,524,542
singles
Career record:	528: 309
Career title:	15th
Highest ranking:	7 (July 9, 2007)
Current placement:	50
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	72:58
Career title:	2
Highest ranking:	45 (April 7, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Last update of the infobox: July 15, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Richard Gasquet (born June 18, 1986 in Béziers ) is a French tennis player .

Career

Richard Gasquet began playing tennis at the age of four at the TC Sérignan near his hometown of Béziers in southern France.

In 2002 Gasquet was the most successful player in junior tennis. Among other things, he won the junior competition of the French Open and the US Open. He was also the youngest player in the top 200 at the age of 16, finishing the year at position 166 in the world rankings .

Until January 2004 Gasquet was trained by Tarik Benhabiles . That year he reached the semi-finals in Buenos Aires , which he lost 6: 7, 1: 6 to Guillermo Coria , and the final in Metz , where he was defeated by Jérôme Haehnel 6: 7 and 4: 6.

2005 was an extremely successful year for Gasquet. At the Monte Carlo Masters he defeated world number one Roger Federer in the quarterfinals , but in the semifinals he was defeated by Rafael Nadal, who was 17th in the world rankings . At the Masters tournament in Hamburg , Gasquet reached the final and met Federer again, who won this time. At the French Open Gasquet moved into the third round, where he was eliminated again against Nadal. In June he won his first ATP tournament on grass in Nottingham . He also reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon and the US Open .

2006 was not so good at first. At the Australian Open Gasquet lost in the first round to Tommy Haas , at the French Open in the second round to David Nalbandian . In March he had to admit defeat to Federer again in the round of 16 of the Indian Wells Masters . In June Gasquet was able to defend his title in Nottingham. Nevertheless, he was not seeded for Wimbledon and met again in the first round against world number one and three-time Wimbledon winner Federer, Gasquet lost in three sets. In July he won the Gstaad clay court tournament . In August he moved into the final of the ATP Masters in Toronto , where he again lost to Federer. At the US Open he lost in the round of 16 against Lleyton Hewitt . At the end of the season Gasquet won the Lyon tournament with a clear final victory over Marc Gicquel (6: 3, 6: 1).

At the beginning of 2007 he reached the semi-finals in Sydney and the round of 16 of the Australian Open, where he had to admit defeat to Tommy Robredo . At the ATP Masters in Monte Carlo he reached the quarterfinals and was eliminated from Juan Carlos Ferrero . At the ATP tournament in Estoril Gasquet played his way up to the final, which he lost to Novak Đoković 6: 7, 6: 0 and 1: 6. At the French Open, to the surprise of his fans, he failed in round two against Belgian Kristof Viegen .
At Wimbledon Gasquet reached the quarter-finals, where he was able to defeat Andy Roddick 4: 6, 4: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6 and 8: 6. In the semifinals he was defeated by defending champion Roger Federer 5: 7, 3: 6 and 4: 6. At the US Open, he had to pass in the second round because of an angina . A month later he won the Mumbai tournament (final victory over Olivier Rochus ). The following week he moved into the final in Tokyo , but had to admit defeat to David Ferrer 1: 6 and 2: 6. At the Paris Masters he achieved after victories a. a. over James Blake and Andy Murray the semifinals, where he was defeated by David Nalbandian in straight sets. He qualified for the Masters Cup for the first time , but could only win one of three group games there.

Gasquet reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open and Wimbledon as well as at the Masters tournaments in Indian Wells, Monte Carlo and Madrid in 2008. At the Canada Masters he lost the quarterfinals against Nadal. At the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart he played his way to the final and lost to Juan Martín del Potro 4-6 and 5-7. At the tournament in Tokyo this time he only reached the semi-finals, which he lost again to del Potro.

The year 2009 began with semi-finals in Brisbane , Sydney and Dubai . During a doping control in March, cocaine was found in his urine, but no trace of the drug was found in a hair sample. He himself always protested his innocence and he was able to explain comprehensibly that cocaine had apparently been in circulation at a party he had attended. The penalty was finally shortened from one year to two months and 15 days, and Gasquet was eligible to play again from mid-July.

In 2010 he moved into the finals of the ATP tournament in Sydney, where he lost to Marcos Baghdatis 4-6 and 6-7 ² . At the Australian Open he was already defeated by Mikhail Juschny 7: 6 ⁹ , 6: 4, 6: 7 ² , 6: 7 ⁴ , 4: 6. In May he was able to win another tournament after two and a half years. At the ATP tournament in Nice he defeated Fernando Verdasco, seeded number 2, 6: 3, 5: 7, 7: 6 ⁵ in the final . In the first round of the French Open against Andy Murray, on the other hand, after 4:04 hours of play, he lost 6: 4, 7: 6, 4: 6, 2: 6, 1: 6.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London Gasquet competed in singles and doubles. After his opening win against Robin Haase , he lost in the second round to Baghdatis 4-6 and 4-6. It went better for him in doubles, with Julien Benneteau he won the bronze medal. They first defeated the British Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins , the seventh seeded Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna and the three seeded Serbs Janko Tipsarević and Nenad Zimonjić . In the semifinals they had to admit defeat to Bob and Mike Bryan from the USA before defeating the Spaniards Feliciano López and David Ferrer in straight sets in the bronze medal match. He was then made a Knight of the French Order of Merit . During the US Open Series Gasquet succeeded for the first time in six years the entry into the finals of a Masters tournament ; in the Toronto final, however, he was clearly defeated by Novak ićoković in straight sets. In Bangkok he won his seventh individual career title at the end of September - his first in over two years. In the final he beat his compatriot Gilles Simon in two straight sets. It also improved steadily in the ranking and at the end of the season was in the top 10 for the first time since 2008.

Gasquet secured the first title of the season right at the start of the 2013 ATP tournament in Doha . In the final, he defeated Nikolai Dawydenko in three sets. In Montpellier he won his next title by defeating his compatriot Benoît Paire in the final in straight sets. At the Sony Open 2013 in Miami he reached the semi-finals, in which he had to admit defeat to Andy Murray 7: 6, 1: 6 and 2: 6. At the tournaments in Monte Carlo , Madrid and Rome Gasquet did not get past the quarter-finals. At the French Open , he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Stanislas Wawrinka in five sets. After victories over Jürgen Melzer and Florian Mayer , he lost the semi-finals against Michail Juschny in Halle / Westphalia . Two weeks later he surprisingly failed in the third round at Wimbledon to Bernard Tomic . After poor preparation, Gasquet succeeded with victories a. a. via Dimitri Tursunow , Milos Raonic and David Ferrer the entry into the semi-finals of the US Open . Only the later tournament winner Rafael Nadal could stop him. At the tournaments in Bangkok and Beijing he played his way to the semifinals before he won his third title of the season in Moscow with a final victory over Mikhail Kukushkin . At the World Tour Finals in London he was eliminated after three defeats in the group stage.

The year 2014 started for Gasquet in Doha with a defeat in the second round against his compatriot Gaël Monfils . At the Australian Open he failed in the third round 6: 2, 5: 7, 4: 6 and 6: 7 to Tommy Robredo . In the Davis Cup he defeated the young Australian Nick Kyrgios . In Montpellier he lost the final against Gaël Monfils as defending champion.

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2014 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

successes

Legend (victories in brackets) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 ATP World Tour 250 (17) ATP Challenger Tour (9)

Title after covering Hard Court (10) Sand (3) Grass (3) Carpet (1)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 13, 2005	Nottingham (1)	race	Max Mirny	6: 2, 6: 3
2.	June 19, 2006	Nottingham (2)	race	Jonas Björkman	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	July 10, 2006	Gstaad	sand	Feliciano López	7: 6 4 , 6: 7 3 , 6: 3, 6: 3
4th	October 23, 2006	Lyon (1)	Carpet (i)	Marc Gicquel	6: 3, 6: 1
5.	September 30, 2007	Mumbai	Hard court	Olivier Rochus	6: 3, 6: 4
6th	May 22, 2010	Nice	sand	Fernando Verdasco	6: 3, 5: 7, 7: 6 5
7th	September 30, 2012	Bangkok	Hard court (i)	Gilles Simon	6: 2, 6: 1
8th.	5th January 2013	Doha	Hard court	Nikolai Davydenko	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 3
9.	February 10, 2013	Montpellier (2)	Hard court (i)	Benoît Paire	6: 2, 6: 3
10.	20th October 2013	Moscow	Hard court (i)	Mikhail Kukushkin	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
11.	February 8, 2015	Montpellier (3)	Hard court (i)	Jerzy Janowicz	3-0 task
12.	May 3, 2015	Estoril	sand	Nick Kyrgios	6: 3, 6: 2
13.	February 7, 2016	Montpellier (4)	Hard court (i)	Paul-Henri Mathieu	7: 5, 6: 4
14th	October 23, 2016	Antwerp	Hard court (i)	Diego Schwartzman	7: 6 4 , 6: 1
15th	June 16, 2018	's-Hertogenbosch	race	Jérémy Chardy	6: 3, 7: 6 5

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 7, 2002	Montauban	sand	Óscar Serrano Gámez	7: 5, 6: 1
2.	March 16, 2003	Sarajevo	Hard court (i)	Dick Norman	6: 1, 7: 6 7
3.	2003	Naples (1)	sand	Gilles Muller	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	June 29, 2003	Reggio nell'Emilia	sand	Potito Starace	7: 5, 6: 1
5.	April 27, 2003	Grenoble	Hard court	Harel Levy	7: 5, 7: 6 1
6th	March 27, 2005	Barletta	sand	Alessio di Mauro	6: 3, 7: 6 6
7th	April 3, 2005	Naples (2)	sand	Potito Starace	4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5
8th.	May 16, 2010	Bordeaux	sand	Michaël Llodra	4: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
9.	17th September 2017	Szczecin	sand	Florian Mayer	7: 6 3 , 7: 6 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 11, 2004	Metz	Hard court (i)	Jérôme Haehnel	6: 7 9 , 4: 6
2.	May 9, 2005	Hamburg	sand	Roger Federer	3: 6, 5: 7, 6: 7 4
3.	August 7, 2006	Toronto	Hard court	Roger Federer	6: 2, 3: 6, 2: 6
4th	April 29, 2007	Estoril	sand	Novak Đoković	6: 7 7 , 6: 0, 1: 6
5.	October 1, 2007	Tokyo	Hard court	David Ferrer	1: 6, 2: 6
6th	July 13, 2008	Stuttgart	sand	Juan Martín del Potro	4: 6, 5: 7
7th	January 16, 2010	Sydney	Hard court	Marcos Baghdatis	4: 6, 7: 6 2
8th.	August 1, 2010	Gstaad	sand	Nicolás Almagro	5: 7, 1: 6
9.	May 6, 2012	Estoril	sand	Juan Martín del Potro	4: 6, 2: 6
10.	August 12, 2012	Toronto	Hard court	Novak Đoković	3: 6, 2: 6
11.	February 9, 2014	Montpellier (1)	Hard court (i)	Gaël Monfils	4: 6, 4: 6
12.	June 21, 2014	Eastbourne	race	Feliciano López	3: 6, 7: 6 5 , 5: 7
13.	October 2nd, 2016	Shenzhen	Hard court	Tomáš Berdych	6: 7 5 , 7: 6 2 , 3: 6
14th	February 12, 2017	Montpellier (2)	Hard court (i)	Alexander Zverev	6: 7 4 , 3: 6
15th	February 11, 2018	Montpellier (3)	Hard court (i)	Lucas Pouille	6: 7 2 , 4: 6
16.	July 22, 2018	Båstad	sand	Fabio Fognini	3: 6, 6: 3, 1: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 8, 2006	Metz	Hard court (i)	Fabrice Santoro	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	3: 6, 6: 1, [11: 9]
2.	January 7, 2008	Sydney	Hard court	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4: 6, 6: 4, [11: 9]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 14, 2007	Monte Carlo	sand	Julien Benneteau	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2: 6, 1: 6
2.	November 1, 2009	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Jérémy Chardy	Colin Fleming Ken Skupski	6: 2, 5: 7, [4:10]

statistics

singles

Tournament 1	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	total
Australian Open	3R	3R	3R	3R	3R	AF	AF	3R	1R	3R	AF	AF	1R	-	1R	1R	-	-	0
French Open	3R	3R	VF	AF	3R	AF	AF	AF	1R	-	-	2R	2R	3R	1R	1R	1R	-	0
Wimbledon	1R	1R	AF	HF	2R	3R	AF	AF	-	-	AF	HF	1R	AF	1R	-	-	-	0
US Open		1R	1R	VF	3R	HF	AF	2R	AF	1R	1R	2R	AF	AF	-	-	-	-	0
ATP Finals 2		-	-	-	-	RR	-	-	-	-	-	RR	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Indian Wells Masters		-	AF	2R	2R	AF	2R	VF	1R	3R	AF	AF	AF	-	-	-	-	-	0
Miami Masters		-	AF	-	AF	HF	AF	3R	1R	-	2R	3R	2R	-	-	1R	-	-	0
Monte Carlo Masters		-	2R	-	-	VF	-	AF	2R	-	AF	VF	-	HF	-	1R	2R	-	0
Madrid Masters 3		-	AF	2R	-	2R	AF	1R	-	-	AF	2R	2R	-	-	-	-	-	0
Rome Masters		-	AF	2R	-	AF	VF	HF	-	AF	1R	2R	-	2R	-	-	-	-	0
Hamburg Masters 4	not carried out										2R	2R	1R	F.	-	-	-	-	0
Canada Masters		2R	-	-	AF	VF	F.	AF	1R	-	VF	2R	F.	2R	-	-	-	-	0
Cincinnati Masters		2R	2R	VF	-	2R	1R	AF	AF	-	2R	2R	1R	2R	-	-	-	-	0
Shanghai Masters		VF	1R	AF	2R	1R	2R	-	AF	1R	not carried out								0
Paris Masters		2R	AF	VF	2R	VF	2R	AF	2R	-	-	HF	AF	-	-	1R	-	-	0
Olympic games	n / A		-	not carried out			2R	not carried out			-	not carried out			-	not carried out			0
Davis Cup 5		S.	HF	VF	F.	VF	VF	HF	F.	PO	VF	VF	VF	VF	-	-	-	-	1
Tournament participation 6	0	18th	19th	19th	19th	24	23	18th	25th	16	21st	23	23	11	15th	8th	5	0	287
Finals reached	0	0	3	2	2	3	3	0	3	0	1	3	4th	2	1	0	0	0	28
Individual titles won	0	0	2	2	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	14th
Hard court wins / defeats	2: 1	20:12	24:13	27:12	23:13	39:16	27:15	19:12	20:14	19:13	0-0	29:13	15:12	7: 4	4: 4	2: 6	0-0	0-0	290: 172
Sand victories / defeats	0: 1	3: 3	8: 3	10: 3	4: 2	7: 5	11: 4	12: 7	16: 8	3: 2	0-0	12: 7	7: 4	13: 5	9: 9	0: 2	1: 3	0-0	125: 73
Turf wins / defeats	0: 1	6: 3	3: 2	6: 2	4: 3	4: 2	4: 3	3: 1	2-0	0-0	6: 3	7: 3	6: 2	11: 2	0: 2	0-0	0: 1	0-0	62:30
Carpet wins / defeats 7	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1: 1	1: 1	6: 3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0: 1	0-0	8: 6
Overall wins / defeats 8	2: 3	29:18	35:18	43:17	31:19	50:23	42:22	34:20	38:22	22:15	32:22	49:24	34:21	31:11	13:15	2: 8	1: 5	0-0	486: 282
World ranking points	-	1375	1975	2850	1350	3300	2515	1765	1385	850	1160	1930	1365	1506	395	404	225	2	N / A
Year-end position	-	31	18th	9	26th	9	10	19th	30th	52	24	8th	18th	16	109	93	166	1303	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1R, 2R, 3R = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage)

¹ tournament result in brackets means that the player has not yet finished the tournament; it shows its current tournament status. After the player finishes the tournament, the bracket is removed.
² before 2009 Tennis Masters Cup .
³ Before 2002 the Masters tournament in Madrid was held in Stuttgart, Essen and Stockholm. In 2009 there was a change of surface from hard court to sand.
⁴ The Hamburg tournament has not been part of the Masters series since 2009.
⁵ PO = playoff (promotion and relegation round in the Davis Cup world group).
⁶ In contrast to the ATP ranking , only tournaments of the ATP World Tour as well as the four Grand Slam tournaments and the ATP World Tour Finals are counted here (as well as for the number of finals and titles won) . H. no Challenger or Future tournaments or team competitions ( Davis Cup or World Team Cup ). However, the latter count in the win / lose statistics.
⁷ No more ATP tournaments have been held on carpet since the 2009 season.
⁸ As of the end of the 2017 season

Web links

Commons : Richard Gasquet  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• ATP profile of Richard Gasquet (English)
• ITF Profile of Richard Gasquet (English)
• Davis Cup Statistics for Richard Gasquet (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Mixed Zone: Cocaine sinner Gasquet is allowed to play again, New Year's Eve is fighting for the world title. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved October 23, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Promotion Spéciale des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques D'Été de Londres 2012 Ordre National du Merite ( Memento of February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )