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Novak Djokovic defeated Gilles Simon of France 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 on Friday (February 27) and has advanced to the finals at the Dubai Championships.
This is the third ranked Djokovic first final of the season. He will play David Ferrer of Spain, who defeated Richard Gasquet of France 6-2, 6-2.
Djokovic didn’t start the match off real well and was broken in the first set, but came back for a victory.
“I feel a bit lucky, but I think you have to work for luck,” Djokovic said. “It doesn’t just fall through the sky. I think I fought my …read more

French tennis player Richard Gasquet has hired a new coach with hopes of revitalizing his 2009 career and return to the world’s top 10 rankings.
It was just last February that Gasquet was ranked number 7 and then because of a knee injury and several losses, he dropped to number 25. He has hired Guillaume Peyre as his coach, who helped Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis to the Australian Open final in 2006.

England has got to be hoppin’ tonight!
Andy Murray pulled a miracle out of his scrawny little butt. Two sets down to the eighth-seeded Richard Gasquet is really not a great way to try and get into the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. But if Murray just wasn’t the little tall Brit that could.
The third set went the distance, and Murray came out ahead in a tiebreak. It was the turning point of the match, and Murray had all cylinders firing in the last two sets (6-2, 6-4) to make his come-from-behind victory over Gasquet complete.
Bad news for Murray and all the Brits …read more

Richard Gasquet, the top-ranked French player, has parted ways with his coach Eric Deblicker. Gasquet has a 10-9 record this year and lost in his first matches of both the Rome and Hamburg Masters.
Apparently I won’t be able to fulfill my life-long dream of being a Frenchman’s tennis coach, though. Gasquet will be coached by Guillaume Peyre, as will Nicholas Mahut. Peyre is a coach for Team Lagardere, the players’ management company.
It doesn’t say, but I can’t really picture this being a long-term deal for Gasquet. He parted with his coach a week before the French Open and there …read more

Holy smokes! Apparently I started talking about Sam Querrey at just the right moment, because he’s doing some American Wonderkid stunts. Querrey just beat Richard Gasquet at the Monte Carlo Masters.
Querrey got soundly beat in the first set 6-2 by Gasquet. Querrey showed his tenacity and mental strength by winning the final two sets 6-4, 6-3. In fact, Querrey broke Gasquet to go up 5-3 in the third and then closed out the match with a strong service game. Actually the last two games of the third set were all Sam Querrey: he won both at 40-15.
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