Richard Gasquet Targets 2012 season in Top-10

Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 11:55 am , filed under Tennis News by Sam Siril

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"Richard Gasquet" World No.19, Richard Gasquet has set his sights on getting back into the world’s top 10 during 2012 season.

Gasquet is hoping to make a comeback in Hopman cup by teaming-up with world No. 9, Marion Bartoli in his first appearance in Perth at the Hyundai Hopman Cup. He will be playing Perth for the first time, with France opening the round-robin event on New Year’s Eve against China, which boasts French Open champion, Li Na and untested Wu Dix, ranked 421st.

The No. 19 is keen to get back on track after once reaching seventh in the world before a shoulder injury and false charges of cocaine use derailed his career several seasons ago.

Gasquet while speaking with the sources has said that, I’ve never played here (Perth), it’s good to practise, it’s good to prepare and to get ready for Melbourne,” Gasquet told local media. “I played a lot in Brisbane (the ATP event the same week), I wanted to change it a bit.

The French men added that his goal in 2012 would be return top-10 in the tennis rakings, I’m trying to break into the top 10, I did it some years ago and I’m not far.

Tags: Hopman Cup, Marion Bartoli, Richard Gasquet