When a 21-year-old Richard Gasquet reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2007 it was assumed it would be the first of many. It wasn’t. Today’s semi-final will be his first here since that defeat to Roger Federer eight years ago and only his third at a grand slam, having reached the last four at the US Open in 2013.
So what happened to the player who, at the age of nine, was pictured on the front of France’s leading tennis magazine with the headline “The champion that France is waiting for?”, and was hailed as “Baby Federer” during the early years of his professional career?