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Richard Gasquet (born in Béziers) is a French professional tennis player. Resist in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Its highest position in the ATP has been the number 7 in the world, it was achieved on July 9, 2007, after reaching the semi-finals in Wimbledon 2007. It has 16 ATP 250 and 3 final titles in Masters 1000 tournaments.

In April 2018 it reached 500 official as a professional, becoming the first French to achieve it and the only one that is among the 50 most successful tennis players in the history of the ATP.

ATP career

2002
The youngest player (16 years) to finish the year at the Top 200. He won two Futures and one of Challenger's titles in Montauban (defeating Spanish Oscar Serrano).

In April he made his ATP debut at the Montecarlo Masters where he received an invitation to the classification and was the youngest tennis player to classify an ATP Masters Series, defeating Nikolai Davydenko and Adrian Voinea. After 15 years and 10 months he defeated Franco Squillari in the first round to be the youngest tennis player to win an ATP final match from Tommy Haas in Rye Brook in 1988... he lost in the second round to Russian Marat Safin.

He made his Grand Slam debut at Roland Garros with 15 years, 11 months, nine days (the second youngest in history to compete in the final picture) in Paris (since Francois Errard, ranked in 1983, being three months younger). He took four sets to the eventual champion Albert Costa in the first round, losing with dignity. He arrived in Paris with 10 wins followed in Futures, winning titles in Britain (as classified) and Germany. He was also a finalist at the Tampere Challenger (losing to Finnish Jarkko Nieminen).

2003
He ended up the youngest tennis player in the Top 100. He co-pilated remarkable results in the 34th-13-four-title Challengers; in Sarajevo (defeating Magnus Norman), the Naples Challenger (defeating Gilles Muller), the Reggio Emilia Challenger (defeating the local Potito Starace) and the Grenoble Challenger (defeating Harel Levy).

He first joined the Top 100 after winning in Grenoble. He won ATP in the Adelaide Tournament (defeating Arnaud Di Pasquale) and in the Marseille Tournament (defeating Feliciano López).

2004
It reached its first ATP final at the Metz Tournament. He beat Dennis van Scheppingen, Anthony Dupuis, Gael Monfils and Jeff Morrison to the final before falling to Jerome Haehnel.

It also reached semi-finals in the Buenos Aires Tournament (defeating Guillermo Coria).

In doubles he obtained the title of mixed doubles in Roland Garros (along with Tatiana Golovin).

2005
He finished No. 1 of his country highlighting the first title of his career and finished Top 20 despite a disease and injury during the year.

Next to # 2, Spanish Rafael Nadal were the only teenagers to finish Top 20. He didn't lose in the first round in the 11 tournaments he played. It was lost the first seven weeks of the year with v