Richard Gasquet, prodigy child who has become a model of longevity, said goodbye to tennis in Roland-Garros
During his career, Richard Gasquet will have won two titles in Roland-Garros. “But the two that are useless”was having fun the Biterrois before the start of the 2025 edition. Winner of the junior tournament in 2002 and the mixed double in 2004 with his compatriot Tatiana Golovin, the tennis player will never raise the Musketeer Cup given to the Winner of the Simple Gentlemen. Thursday, May 29, the Habs fell the curtain on twenty-three years of professional tennis by losing (6-3, 6-0, 6-4) against the Italian Jannik Sinner, in the second round of the Parisian Grand Chelem tournament.
A child prodigy who has become a model of longevity, Gasquet waited for his 38th birthday to definitively put his snowshoes and had chosen the meeting at the Porte d’Auteuil for a last reminder. By eliminating Térence Atmane when he entered, the esthete on the velvet had even spared a prestigious meeting to finish, a match against the world number 1 on the court Philippe-Chatrier.
No one was fooled: the Italian was going to get out of this duel. Richard Gasquet probably knew him himself. “The poster is beautiful when you are at the end of your career and you may play your last match”he explained after his success in the first round. The Biterrois was already considered happy to be able to say “goodbye” the racket in hand, he who was the victim of a muscle lesion in the calf a few weeks from the start of Roland-Garros. For this tennis lover, ending with a medical press release published on social networks would have been unbearable.
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