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Richard Gasquet, the former No. 7 tennis player, has revealed his intention to retire next year after Roland Garros, a major clay-court tournament. Gasquet has won 16 ATP Tour titles, most recently last year in Auckland. He has 36 victories against Top 10 opponents and has appeared in the ATP Finals twice, in 2007 and 2013. The Frenchman was a semi-finalist at Wimbledon (2007 and 2015) and the US Open (2013). “I think it’s the best time for me to do it. It’s the best tournament to do it. It’s magnificent, we’re lucky being French to be able to stop at these kinds of incredible places. An ending is always complicated, all the former great players always told me that it wasn’t easy to announce that you never know when, how, where, here in any case, it’s a “obviously,” Gasquet said in an interview with the French national sports daily The Team.
The 38-year-old Frenchman has 605 wins on tour (605-400), the third most wins among active players behind Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, according to the ATP Win/Loss Index.
Gasquet, who turned professional in 2002, won his first match on the ATP Tour at the age of 16 at the 2002 Monte-Carlo Masters against Franco Squillari.
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