Unlike his buddies Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon, retired respectively from Roland-Garros and the Rolex Paris Masters 2022, Richard Gasquet still makes the pleasure last at 36 years and 6 months.
Gaël Monfils, also 36, with a foot injury, has not played in official competition since last August, and plans to return to the circuit in mid-February.
Not only is Gasquet resisting, but he still manages to perform.
Led a zero set, then 4-1 in the third act, the Biterrois overthrew Cameron Norrie, 12th in the world, in the final of the Auckland tournament last weekend (4-6, 6-4, 6-4) in 2:26 a.m.
“The last time I won (a tournament)
was
in 2018
(in Bois-le-Duc on grass, editor’s note).
I will be 37 this year, and if someone had told me when I arrived here last week that I would win the following Saturday, I would not have believed it.
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