2010 US Open Tennis: What’s With All These Frenchmen?

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Published: September 3, 2010

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As promised, this is about Richard Gasquet and his chances to win the 2010 U.S. Open Tennis Grand Slam currently underway. But in reality, it has to be about all the Frenchmen.

So far, the following are among those advancing, with other Frenchmen threatening to break through with current rounds as I write this article in parentheses: Gasquet (3), Jeremy Chardy (out in second), Benoit Paire (close to out in second), Adrian Mannarino (2), Gilles Simon (2), Michael Llodra (3), Florent Serra (2), Paul-Henri Mathieu (3), Arnaud Clement (3), and Gael Monfils (3). It turns out that out of the forty or so players left, fully nine are still alive as I write this article. Incroyable!

To see what this means, if the current draws remain to form, we might have an all-French final. The players with a chance to reach the Finals seem at this point to include Gasquet, Monfils, Llodra, Clement, and Mathieu. Taking these players in order, this is what we get.

Richard Gasquet

Gasquet has been ranked as high as seventh at one time. He reached the Fourth Round six times until 2008, including a Semifinals berth in the 2007 Wimbledon. 

Unfortunately, for this successful Frenchman, Gasquet fell on hard times after a cocaine scandal broke in 2009. The scandal threatened to end his young career after he tested positive. He was eventually cleared of wrongdoing, successfully claiming he must have tested positive because of kissing a woman who had done cocaine that evening.



He appears to have gotten back on track.

At this point, unseeded Gasquet appears both sufficiently seasoned and back to form sufficiently to make this his best run ever in a Grand Slam. His Second Round annihilation of Nicholay Davidenko was as dominant a performance over a ranked opponent as has been seen so far in the 2010 U.S. Open.

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