In the just-concluded first round of the Cincinnati Masters, Murray, who played with a wild card, defeated Gasquet 2-0 to advance. In this game, Murray blasted out 38 winning points, including 15 ACE.
The ostensibly revived Murray, once one of the Big Four, was based on victory over Gasquet. This made the French veteran Gasquet sigh: not a giant, but often encountered a giant, and lose more than win less. To paraphrase Hantu Chuva: It was the Big Four that ruined my career.
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Gasquet began playing tennis at the age of 4 and was on the cover of a French tennis magazine at the age of 9. At the age of 12, he won the "Little World Junior Championship".
In 1999, in the quarter-finals of the European Junior Championship, the 13-year-old Gasquet defeated Nadal 2-0, which was also the first time the two met.
In 2002, Gasquet won the Men's Singles Championship in the Junior Division of the French Open and the U.S. Open, and reached the first place in the World Junior ATP Rankings, and the first place in the world at the end of the year. He is the 5th Junior ATP World No. 1 French player.
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In 2002, at the age of 16, Gasquet turned pro and took a wild card to the Monte Carlo Masters, not only breaking through the qualifiers to becoming the youngest qualifier in ATP history, but also winning the main tournament for the first time, becoming the youngest player to win the tour for the first time since 1988.
In 2003, he won again in his first meeting with Nadal On Tour.
In 2005, the 18-year-old Gasquette defeated Federer in the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters, beating the world number one for the first time in his career and ending Federer's 25-game winning streak on the Tour. This game made Gasquet famous.
In the 2006 Rogers Cup (Masters) semi-finals, Gasquet defeated Murray 2-0 to reach the final, and in 2007, the Paris Masters quarter-finals defeated Murray again, forming a double kill against Murray.
In 2007, in the Tennis Masters Cup, Gasquet defeated Djokovic 2-0.
From 2003 to 2007, the 21-year-old Gasquet gathered victories against the Big Four.
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Next, Gasquet gave us a short-lived story, and the H2H of the Big Four was completely at a disadvantage.
Looking at Federer first, H2H is 2-19, with only 2 wins. In addition to the first meeting mentioned above, in the 2011 Masters in Rome, Gasquet defeated Federer 2-1, which was also the last victory against Federer so far. In the lost matches, there are 2 finals, 2 semi-finals and 3 1/4 finals.
The same was true against old rival Nadal, H2H was 1-17, and after winning the first meeting, Gasquet never found a second victory. The number of defeats, including 4 semi-finals and 2 semi-finals.
The record against Djokovic is 1-14, including 2 finals, 2 semi-finals and 2 1/4 finals.
In contrast, the score against Murray was 4-9, facing the big four in the tennis world, barely saving a little face.
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Gasquet's clash with the Big Four contains a lot of amazing data.
Four Grand Slams of 2018: in the third round of the Australian Open, Federer defeated Gasquet 3-0 and won the title, which was also Federer's last Grand Slam title (20th); in the third round of the French Open, Nadal defeated Gasquet 3-0 and won the title; in the third round of the US Open, Djokovic defeated Gasquet 3-0 and won the title. It can be said that in 2018, Gasquet was a grand slam koi, who beat him in the third round to win the championship, but unfortunately he was out of the first round at Wimbledon that year.
But in 2021, Gasquet's image changed dramatically: in the second round of the French Open, Nadal defeated Gasquet 3-0 to stop in the semifinals; in the second round of Wimbledon, Federer defeated Gasquet 3-0 to stop in the quarterfinals. And Murray, who won the first round this time, the championship is estimated to be hopeless.
In the era of the Big Four, almost 99% of the players have become the foil of the giants, after all, the giants are too powerful. Veterans are not easy, and I hope Gasquet can play a few seasons well.