Richard Gasquet News

Eight Frenchmen, spearheaded by world number 13 Gael Monfils, dominate the men's draw for the Brisbane International in January, organisers said on Thursday.

They were not playing La Marseillaise as the players went on court, or filling the water bottles with Evian rather than Buxton, but Court 13 was all but turned into France's 97th dpartement here yesterday.

Tomas Berdych has beaten French qualifier Vincent Millot 6-3, 7-6 to reach the second round of the Paris Masters.

A communication breakdown could create a one-year rupture in Yanina Wickmayer's career, but Wickmayer will fight for her right to play professional tennis in 2010.

France's Richard Gasquet returns a ball to Switzerland's Marco Chiudinelli during their quarter final match at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basel, Switzerland, Friday, Nov.

FRENCHMAN Richard Gasquet will appear before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne on Tuesday with the fate of his tennis career hanging in the balance.

BASEL: World No. 1 Roger Federer breezed into the Swiss Indoors semifinals on Friday but the home crowd's hopes of an all-Swiss final were dashed when Novak Djokovic rallied to beat Stanislas Wawrinka.

When you are in Switzerland playing in front of a deliriously happy home crowd in Basel, then you must be Roger Federer.A Or not.

Novak Djokovic recorded his first 6-0, 6-0 win at an elite event Thursday, shutting out Jan Hernych at the Swiss Indoors.

A SECOND ATP Tour win in as many months has seen Stirling graduate Colin Fleming catapult himself up the rankings.

Andy Murray says that he will remember Andre Agassi for what he did on the tennis court, not the revelations about a drug-taking and lying to the ATP over a failed drugs test.

Andre Agassia s revelation, in his forthcoming autobiography, that he abused crystal meth in the late a 90s isna t shocking.

DOHA: Andre Agassi's devastating confession of his use of crystal methamphetamine is a devastating blow to his reputation, but the temptations of the tour have snared others over the years.

Former champions Mikhail Youzhny and Marat Safin advanced to the second round of the St.

Fourth-seeded Frenchman Jeremy Chardy won 32 of 39 service points and hit six aces to defeat Petru-Alexandru Luncanu , a Romanian qualifier, 6-2, 6-2 in just 63 minutes Tuesday for a place in the St.

They may have missed the Argentinean they really wanted, but former world No 3 David Nalbandian is not a bad consolation prize for Auckland's Heineken Open tennis tournament.

For God's sake, Ivo Minar?! I mean, please. First it was Filippo Volandri , the Italian, who tested positive this year, and then Richard Gasquet , but oh yeah, that was a mistake.

SUCCESSES: The Chilean s chances of reaching the end-of-season World Tour Finals received a boost, while James Blake was another winner in Shanghai REUTERS , SHANGHAI Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009, Page 19 David Ferrer of Spain hits a return to Richard Gasquet of France during the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 yesterday.

A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Nick Laham/Getty Images Harrison , was left withA only doubles to play at the U.S. Open after suffering a tough loss in singles qualifying.

Baldnes s cure The Brazilian legend was banned for 120 days after failing a post-match test in 2007.