“I'll stop at Roland-Garros”: tennis player Richard Gasquet announces his retirement

French tennis player Richard Gasquet, aged 38, will retire after the Roland-Garros tournament in May or June 2025, he announced in an interview published in the newspaper L'Équipe on Thursday, October 10.

“I am announcing that I will stop at Roland-Garros (May 25 – June 8, 2025) next year. I think this is the best time for me to do it. This is the best tournament to do it. It's magnificent, we're lucky to be French to be able to stop in these kinds of incredible places", explains Gasquet.

"I'll be almost 39, a canonical age, I would never have imagined playing so much starting so young", adds the Frenchman who will therefore stop after 23 years of career, he who turned professional in 2002 at only 15 years old.

A rich career

This racket genius, on the cover of Tennis Magazine at age 9, had caused a sensation by winning his first match on the main circuit in Monte Carlo at age 15 against Argentinian Franco Squillari.

With his silky one-handed backhand, Richard Gasquet has won 16 tournaments on the main circuit, the last in Auckland (New Zealand) in January 2023. He reached world number 7 in 2007.

Like the other three "musketeers" of French tennis (Gaël Monfils, still playing, Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, retired), Gasquet has not managed to lift a Grand Slam trophy.

He has reached three semi-finals in Majors: at Wimbledon in 2007, eliminated by Roger Federer, at the US Open in 2013, beaten by Rafael Nadal, then again at Wimbledon in 2015, eliminated by Novak Djokovic.