2023-08-28 23:25:00
The French lost in 5 sets against the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (92nd).
Richard Gasquet lost in five sets in the first round of the US Open on Monday, ending a season without a Grand Slam victory, but despite the defeat he looks at 37 years old towards next season and considers himself capable of winning still in Majors. The Biterrois lost 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5/7), 6-7 (1/7), 6-2 against Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (92nd).
«In the fifth, obviously you believe it… Throughout the match he hit the ball better, he served better, he made a lot of winning shots, a lot of mistakes too, but he was the one who dictated the game. I brawled, but he made a very good fifth“Commented Gasquet. “I’m having a bad start to the match, I’m not really in the rhythm. But it’s a best of five sets match, a lot can happen. I tried to fight until the end“, he added.
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«I want to try to finish the season well»
For the first time since 2004, he completed a season without having won a single Grand Slam match and at the time he had not participated in Flushing Meadows at all. “Matches in three winning sets are the hardest, it has nothing to do with matches in two sets, so the more it progresses, the more difficult it will be, necessarily.“, underlined in reference to his age the 85th in the world.
«But I still think I can make a little bit of it. It is sure that at the level of the format, it is difficult“, he added. “I want to play. I want to try to finish the season well and start again next year no matter what. The physical is not bad all the same, it is not ridiculous, I hold the matches. After that, you have to try to play well. There is always the desire to play, matches are always good feelings, defeats or victories“, he noted.
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