Richard Gasquet has named two top ATP stars who were \u201cnot nice\u201d as he also shed light on what Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are like behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old will hang up his racket after playing the final tournament of his illustrious career at this year\u2019s French Open.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman has won 16 ATP singles titles, while he reached a career-high ranking of\u00a0world No 7 in 2007.<\/p>\n
Gasquet, who turned pro in 2002, played throughout the golden generation of tennis dominated by the legendary Big Three.<\/p>\n
He holds a 2-19 record against Federer and a 1-13 record against Djokovic, while he was unable to beat Nadal in 18 encounters on the main tour.<\/p>\n
During an episode of the Pause podcast, Gasquet discussed his relationship with top players on the ATP Tour<\/a> during his career.<\/p>\n In response to the host asking \u201cis there a guy who wasn\u2019t nice?\u201d, Gasquet named both Tomas Berdych and Robin Soderling.<\/p>\n \u201cGuys a little less strong [than Federer, Djokovic and Nadal] like Tomas Berdych, Robin Soderling, who were still ranked fifth and sixth in the world,\u201d said Gasquet (translated from French).<\/p>\n \u2018Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic figured out a hack prior generations didn\u2019t\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The 10 greatest male clay-court players of the Open Era \u2013 ranked!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBut the best, the ones who really interest people, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, are polite, respectful, pleasant guys.\u201d<\/p>\n Soderling and Berdych were both ranked as high as fourth in the world and were runners-up at the French Open and Wimbledon respectively in 2010.<\/p>\n Gasquet amassed a 3-2 record against Soderling and a 8-9 record against Berdych.<\/p>\n In a recent interview with Arnaud Clement for Eurosport France, Gasquet highlighted Nadal on a clay court as the toughest opponent he has ever faced.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so hard to compare. It\u2019s so irrational. From time to time, we\u2019re in a world where it\u2019s so hard to say,\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe other one (Nadal), he won Roland Garros 14 times, you can\u2019t think anymore. The other one (Djokovic), he won 24 Grand Slams. Federer took the ball on the half-volley all day long, so I can\u2019t think anymore.<\/p>\n \u201cAfterwards, yes, the ultimate level, Nadal on clay when it was very hot. You see that beautiful one bounced 10 meters, it was crazy. It was a ball of incredible power.<\/p>\n \u201cI would say him, I would really say Nadal on clay when it\u2019s hot. Besides, he lost two or three times maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0\u2018Novak Djokovic arrived with a very average game \u2013 it\u2019s incredible he surpassed Federer & Nadal\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Richard Gasquet reveals what Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer are really like<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Richard Gasquet has named two top ATP stars who were \u201cnot nice\u201d as he also shed light on what Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are like behind the scenes. The 38-year-old will hang up his racket after playing the final tournament of his illustrious career at this year\u2019s French Open. The Frenchman has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n