Talk:Richard Gasquet

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French Open category?

Lol, he was never won the french open. Why is he listed under that category? 74.97.222.64 18:02, 6 July 2007

Because he won the mixed doubles. JBdV 20:48, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Playing Style

"Gasquet's one-handed backhand features a high take back, utilising gravity, coils up (very low to the ground), and slowly unwinds, and unleashes one of the most beautiful and lethal shots seen these days in tennis."

I am not familiar enough with his style to do so myself, but should this require some revision? It sounds over romanticized and a little colloquial. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.209.255.193 (talk) 23:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gasquet's single-handed backhand is generally considered to be a textbook example of a beautiful backhand in the pro tennis world, so the quotation above is not so outlandish. "Graceful" and "beautiful" are frequently used to describe his backhand. He is often used as an instructional example for tennis learners -- example from Tennis magazine tennis instruction. Another example from a website devoted to learning the one-handed backhand . Perhaps less effusive language would help this passage -- something like "Gasquet's one-handed backhand is considered by many of his peers to be one of the best backhands on the pro tour. His backhand technique features a high take-back and powerful loop, which dramatically increases his ability to impart topspin and velocity onto the ball." Morr0350 (talk) 16:04, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The pronunciation of Richard Gasquet's name as shown was incorrect. The name is French and should not be Anglicized. His family name should be pronounced gas-KAY according to the ATP web site. Unsure of the French pronunciation of Richard.SystemicAnomaly (talk) 19:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote the pronunciation in IPA since English sounds are very misleading. For example, AY is a diphtong in English ([eɪ̯]) but ET in the end of Gasquet is only one sound ([ɛ]). Oyp (talk) 14:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Richard is pronounced "Ree-shar", in French. You can trust me: I am French. "Gas-kay" is fine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.92.88.94 (talk) 09:13, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POV-section

Just picking one section here, I see the following issues with neutrality, and even some original research:

Fresh off of his huge win
having just demolished
possibly due to being overawed at playing one of his childhood heroes.

Perhaps it's worth someone familiar with the subject going over the whole article and removing this clear breaches of NPOV/OR. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:18, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 23:54, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Personal life

I've added referenced information to make a personal life section for this article to make it more interesting, but as you can see I've not been able to create the section correctly. I've tried to read help sections on wikipedia to work out how to do it but is too complicated for me. Could someone do me a favour and create the new personal life section correctly, providing of course your happy with the information contained in it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buffalo mozzarella (talk • contribs) 20:23, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doubles Ranking

The current doubles ranking is higher than the highest ranking. Does anyone know how to fix this?Jonathan108 (talk) 19:36, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:20, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Gasquet most titles

Gasquet is tied for the seventh most. There are seven players with that have more titles then him, but Cilic and Medvedev are tied, so I count six. He is tied with Wawrinka for seventh. Let me know if I am seeing it wrong. Sashona (talk) 04:01, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Where is it listed so I can look? Is it ATP Tour records? If seven people have more titles than you, you are eighth. He would be tied for eighth with Wawrinka among active players. Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:14, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is in ATP Tour records#Titles & finals. Just click on the link from Gasquet's page. If there are seven in front of you but two of them are tied, that makes six ahead, therefore Gasquet and Wawrinka are seventh. Sashona (talk) 21:50, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sashona: That is not the way I have ever seen it written for any sports. When you number things like placement it would always go 1,2,3,4,4,6,7,8,9,9,9,12, etc. We have always done it that way at wikipedia as far as I know. Look at all the charts for All-time tennis records – Women's singles. The very first charts in "Grand Slam tournament records" are done the proper way. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:17, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not see placement in the ATP chart, I saw number of titles only. I went by that. Sashona (talk) 23:24, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is true, but the Richard Gasquet lead is talking about placement when it says "eighth most." So it would be 1,2,3,4,5,5,7,8,8 for that placement. I can't think of any example off the top of my head where it would ever be different. Fyunck(click) (talk)