By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Monday, January 6, 2025
Photograph credit score: Matthew Stockman/Getty
Richard Gasquet bid farewell to Oz with gratitude.
The 38-year-old Frenchman paused to signal autographs for followers after falling to Duje Ajdukovic 7-6(4), 6-3 within the Australian Open first spherical of qualifying. It’s the remaining Melbourne match of Gasquet’s profession.
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Former world No. 7 Gasquet has 606 profession wins, captured 16 Tour-level titles and earned greater than $21 million in prize cash in a formidable profession. Gasquet introduced he’ll retire on the 2025 Roland Garros.
“Thanks for the numerous years of entertaining us in Melbourne and we want you all the most effective in retirement,” the Australian Open posted on its social media channels.
Richard Gasquet’s Australian Open profession involves an in depth 👏Thanks for the numerous years of entertaining us in Melbourne and we want you all the most effective in retirement 💙 pic.twitter.com/Npf7T9fHhh
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 6, 2025
“I believe that it’s the greatest second for me to do it,” Gasquet advised French every day L’Equipe of his deliberate Roland Garros retirement. “It’s the greatest match to do it. It is magnificent, now we have the prospect being French to have the ability to cease in these form of unimaginable locations.
“An finish, it is all the time difficult, all the previous nice gamers all the time advised me it isn’t simple to announce. You by no means know when, how, the place. Right here, in any case, it’s apparent.”
Gasquet’s 606 profession match wins are most by a Frenchman within the Open Period.