Gasquet has been French tennis almost man. Mixing up superb performances which often provide shock victories with lack lustred ones leaving him well beaten in the next match. He seems to suffer from persistent inconsistency. Even this year, he has caused significant upsets in the Australian open where he beat ninth seed Serbian Janko Tipsarevic in straight set only to be well beaten in the next round by Spanish number two David Ferrer. On top of this he also lost again to David Ferrer after beating Andy Murray in a shock result.
Gasquet famously lost in the final of the Mercedes cup in Stuttgart after a string of incredible performances top then teenager out massive outsider Del Potro. Ranked at 45 in the world, which is down from his career high of 7th, Gasquet is a real package and often his ranking is not reflected of his raw talent. One his day he is as good as anyone and can blow his opponent apart with an effective attacking game. However these good days are few and far between and often gapped between a number of poor performances.
The Twenty Five year old seems to be able to turn his ability on and off, often coming back from one terrible set to win the next in extreme fashion, the only concern is that it’s not clear who has the ability to turn it on as certainly Gasquet doesn’t seem to be able to do it over a long enough period to secure him some silverware. With his level of inconsistency, he will surely never win a grand slam until he can put all his good performances spread over the year into one tournament, but with the grand slams monopolised by the world top three players, it is doubtful the Frenchman will ever be able to win more than an upset in the earlier rounds before being well beaten himself.
The Sony Ericsson tournament has been quite a hit for Richard Gasquet who has put up quite a decent performance especially in the last few matches. He started off on a great note with the second round ending in a victory stint against Stebe. This victory led him to the third round against Ramos. He has been practicing a lot and this can be best seen with the performance in these matches. His winning of all the 3 sets with a score of 6-3, 6-2 has gone on to show that he has a great hold over the court and can improve in the years to come.
However once he entered into the third round with Ramos, his performance never deteriorated and he kept up to the same pace. There was consistency which could be seen as he won 2 of the three sets. This performance made him move on to the fourth round against Novak Djokovic.
Playing against Novak is what one can call tough competition and Richard Gasquet went thoroughly prepared. However even after putting up a brilliant performance he lost both the first two sets of the game and eventually lost the entire game. This has marked the end of the tournament and even the winning spree for Richard Gasquet.
However there is nothing to worry about. New tournaments keep coming up and he has not given up hope. He mentioned in the post match discussion saying that he plans to improve on his weak areas which he could figure out from today’s match and shall build up on them so that he can perform better in the tournaments to come. Richard Gasquet has put up a great show in the previous tournaments he has participated in and has always shown a keen interest to learn and improve.
Seeded at No. 5 in the main draw, Richard Gasquet, the home favorite, secured a whopping win over the 82nd ranked Go Soeda in the first round of the Open 13 on Tuesday. The world No. 15 just took sixty-three minutes of play to finish the game at 6 – 0, 6 – 2, moving on in the second round of the ATP World Tour 250 event in Marseille in France.
The French tennis star was totally ballistic throughout the game, dominating each second of the game to pressurize his opponent out of the match. Richard Gasquet just lost 2 games in the full match up and defeated Soeda all aspect of the game, saving one of the best displays of rich quality tennis to succeed the hearts of his local spectators.
The 5th seed slammed seventy-four percent of his 1st serve on aim, securing twenty-two out of thirty-four points on it as well as nailing 5 out of 6 serve breaks to drive the Japanese player out of the game in style. It was the very 1st time when Soeda went on one against Richard Gasquet and turned out to be a full mismatch for the belligerent French player. The twenty seven year old Japanese veteran had 7 break opportunities in the game he frittered past all of them to be at a disadvantage throughout the game. He did not succeed to hold his serve in the first 9 games of the match, showing his poor performance against the ex- top-tenner.
The Frenchman outclassed Soeda with his selective shot making and pin-point hitting. Soeda held his serve for the very 1st time in the 4th game of the 2nd set but it was too late for him to secure a comeback from that position. Once again, he held his serve but a squeezing break point conversion from Richard Gasquet in the 8th game showed decisive for him, securing the victory at 6 – 2.
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