AO Pays Tribute to Gasquet After Final Melbourne Match

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 various years of entertaining us in Melbourne and we want you all one of the best in retirement,” the Australian Open posted on its social media channels.

Richard Gasquet’s Australian Open profession involves a detailed 👏

Thanks for the various years of entertaining us in Melbourne and we want you all one of the best in retirement 💙 pic.twitter.com/Npf7T9fHhh

— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 6, 2025

“I feel that it’s the finest second for me to do it,” Gasquet instructed French every day L’Equipe of his deliberate Roland Garros retirement. “It’s the finest match to do it. It is magnificent, we have now the prospect being French to have the ability to cease in these sort of unimaginable locations.

“An finish, it is all the time sophisticated, all the previous nice gamers all the time instructed 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.