In Roland-Garros, Richard Gasquet sees retirement without regret: “I gave everything to try to be the best”

Will he go online? Crossed? In amortized? Or maybe even lobed? The bets are open to find out where Richard Gasquet’s last winning loss will come from. At 38, the Frenchman is preparing to compete in Roland-Garros the last tournament of a career that has spread over almost a quarter of a century. In the first round, Monday, May 26, he will face his young compatriot Terence Atmane (121^e global), before a possible second round against the Italian world number 1 Jannik Sinner.

Tennis fans will regret not being able to admire this setback with a hand to the licked gestures. The main interested party has the feeling of accomplished duty. “I could have done better in certain games, but I gave everything to try to be the best. »» Met in April, during the Monte-Carlo tournament, the Biterrois draws up a final observation: it is “Fallen on stronger than [lui] ».

Contemporary by Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, Richard Gasquet was at the forefront to attend the hegemony of this trio which won sixty-six titles of the Grand Slam. Whenever he approached a large summit, he was dryly beaten by one of these first rope: his three semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament as his three Masters 1000 finals all ended with defeats against Nadal, Federer or Djokovic.

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