Richard Gasquet will be one of the hopefuls of pulling off what would be a remarkable French open victory in front of his home crowd in France. Gasquet reached the fourth round in 2011 which was his best performance at Roland Garros in his career. Having made the quarter final in Rome, which included a impressive victory over British number one and world number four Andy Murray. Although clay is not his proffered surface his clay game has improved significantly in recent years and the French tennis star will be eying a strong performance in this years competition.
Gasquet who is currently ranked world number twenty, will be looking to take advantage of a weak selection of the draw which sees the previous world number seven play Estonian qualifier Jurgen Zopp in the first round. Looking at the draw Gasquet would hope to be reaching the quarter finals and potentially further should he raise his game and gain some momentum as the tournament continues. A good performance in Paris will leave him in good stead heading into a highly competitive Wimbledon later in the summer, which is a tournament that Gasquet has often performed well in including a semi-final in 2007 which remain as his best grand slam performance to date.
Best known for his quality ground strokes his game is well suited to grass compare to clay, however with the crowd on his side and a good draw, this could well be a chance to register a career best performance at a grand slam, which should he do there is a very good chance he will equal or beat that record at Wimbeldon, which will restore him into the top ten players in the world.
Richard Gasquet, a young professional tennis player was born in the year 1986 and s presently 26 years of age. Richard Gasquet was born in France and is a French tennis player by profession. Talking about his profession, Richard Gasquet won the mixed doubles Grand Slam at the 2004 French Open. Richard Gasquet highest ranking till date is number 7. That is till now he has not gone higher than that rank. Richard Gasquet is once again like those tennis players who have not played very well and not performed and shown their worth. However talking about his achievements.
The best thing that goes well with Richard Gasquet and what he is famously known for is his long ground strokes and his famous one handed backhand. The 2012 season started for Richard Gasquet by performing and participating in the Hopman Cup alongside Marion Bartoli who is the top 10 Women Tennis Association pro. Alongside in the Apia International Sydney, Richard Gasquet made his presence in the quarter finals of that tournament.
Coming to the 2012 Australia Open, Richard Gasquet played against Andreas Seppi and against Andrey Gulobev. Richard Gasquet made it to the quarter finals in this tournament also at the Open Sud de France. In the year 2011, Richard Gasquet played a lot of tournaments with som being the 2011 Aircel Chennai Open, the 2011 Medi bank International Sydney, the 2011 Australia Open. After all these tournaments he succumbed to a shoulder injury after which he came back to play the 2011 Dubai Championship where he managed to reach the semi final but finally lost to the professional Roger Federer. In the first time in his career, Richard Gasquet defeated two top players back to back in the 2011 BNP Paribus Open.
It is a fight between Juan Martin Del Potro, the lanky Argentine, who is quite well weaponed along with a devastating forehand and probing serve, whereas his opponent Richard Gasquet has awe-inspiring agility and very reliable serve – so be ready to cherish a good battle between these 2 on Friday in a quarter-final game of the 2012 season Marseille ATP Open, an ATP World Tour 250 championship, being played in Marseille, France.
At present, ranked at number ten in the world, Juan Martin Del Potro ended runner-up in Rotterdam tennis championship, where he lost to the Swiss master Roger Federer in the final match. Juan Martin had his contribution of injuries following his maiden Grand Slam win in the year 2009 in US Open, but at present it appears that the Argentine tennis player has took on the entire spoilt things quite well.
Del Potro is looking for his 10th career title on tour as well as has a nice 10 – 3 win – loss record on tour in this season. The Argentine player can anticipate a tough battle against Richard Gasquet and will have to engage in his top tennis to secure a win here. Seeded 4th in this championship, Del Potro equalized the transactions at 6 – 7 (6 – 8), 6 – 4 in his match, when Nikolay Davydenko retired because of a foot injury.
Del Potro, in the head to head, has a thin lead over the French tennis player with 2 – 1. Previously, they confronted back in the year 2008 in the Tokyo championship, where Del Potro beat up Richard Gasquet in 3 laborious sets. We can anticipate some kind of tennis on Friday, since both competitors are looking in devastating from at this point of time.
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