{"id":93578,"date":"2024-04-25T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=93578"},"modified":"2024-04-25T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:48:46","slug":"richard-gasquet-a-thousand-reasons-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/richard-gasquet-a-thousand-reasons-to-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Gasquet, a thousand reasons to be happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Gasquet\u2019s legacy grew significantly today. The Frenchman played his 1000<sup>th<\/sup> ATP Tour match, making him the fourth active player to reach four figures. He joins an elite club of pros, which includes only Novak Djokovic (1,315), Rafael Nadal (1,291) and Fernando Verdasco (1,006).<\/p>\n<p>Such feats are not celebrated every week: \u201cI\u2019m very proud to reach this number, it means I have worked hard and well. It\u2019s no coincidence or luck that I have maintained my fitness for 17 straight seasons\u201d, said the Frenchman. \u201cTennis is my passion and I fight every day to keep playing at the top level. I don\u2019t know if this\u2019ll be my last time in Madrid, but I\u2019m very proud of my record\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, he was unable to celebrate the milestone with a win, saying goodbye to the clay of Madrid after a 6-2, 7-5 defeat to the Italian Lorenzo Soneto. Despite today\u2019s loss, the French player has plenty of reasons to be happy: 1000 matches, 17 seasons and 16 ATP titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Gasquet\u2019s legacy grew significantly today. The Frenchman played his 1000th ATP Tour match, making him the fourth active player to reach four figures. He joins an elite club of pros, which includes only Novak Djokovic (1,315), Rafael Nadal (1,291) and Fernando Verdasco (1,006). Such feats are not celebrated every week: \u201cI\u2019m very proud to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":93453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,824,837],"tags":[825,831,1083],"class_list":["post-93578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-tenis-masculino-en","category-noticias-mutua-en","category-noticias-tenis-en","tag-atp-en-2","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en-2","tag-richard-gasquet-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93579,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93578\/revisions\/93579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}