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Gasquet Completes Surface Slam with ATP Mumbai Title
Posted on October 1, 2007
Top seed Richard Gasquet beat Olivier Rochus 6-3, 6-4 Sunday in the final at the Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open in Mumbai, achieving career titles on all four surfaces, grass, clay, indoor and hard.
"I'm very happy to have won a title on hardcourt," Gasquet said. "I had won on grass, clay and indoor, so it shows I can play on every court, which is very important for me. It's my first title of the year and my first title in India, so I will have great memories of this tournament for sure. The conditions were tough here with the humidity -- it's not the same in France -- and maybe I got a little tired. I didn't lose a set all week, which was very good."
Gasquet is now 5-4 in career finals. Rochus was playing his sixth ATP singles final and drops to 2-4.
"It was close," Rochus said. "I didn't serve as well as I did in the previous match. At 2-1, 15-30, he made a hard volley on the line. If I had won that game it could have been a new match. Richard has a lot of experience and he never makes stupid errors. He makes you play and he makes you run. He's not No. 14 in the world for nothing."
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