GASTON. Opposed to the 3rd round of Roland-Garros against the Dane Holger Rune this Saturday, May 28, Hugo Gaston will have the honors of the night session.
If you want to follow the match between Holger Rune and Hugo Gaston for the 3rd round of Roland-Garros, you have no choice, you will have to connect to Amazon Prime video from 8:15 p.m. to follow the pre-match then the match from 9 p.m. now famous night session. For this match, the French public will be totally won over to the Frenchman’s cause and should discover the Dane, a young nugget of world tennis like Carlos Alcaraz. “He is the same age as Alcaraz, but we necessarily talk about it less. He has a lot of victories this year, he won a first title. He even won here in juniors. I know him a little. trained together at the beginning of the week and I also played doubles with him this year. I know that he is a player who plays very hard and that the match will be complicated. But it will be a good time, he is a person which I really appreciate. We met for the first time at the Next Gen Masters at the end of last year. Obviously, there were only eight of us, so we were all quite close. Since we got along very well, we saw both of them to double in Marseille and in addition we played well“explained Hugo Gaston.
Asked about the level of play at Roland, Holger Rune expects a difficult match, but explains that he feels at home. “I like the conditions here. It feels like I’m playing at home. I have friends here, there’s family, so I really feel like home, which is both nice and comfortable. I still remember my victory in juniors well. I know the courts. I’ve been coming here for three years and I play there naturally.”
Hugo Gaston was born on September 20, 2000 in Toulouse, a French metropolis located in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region. He received his first tennis racket from his father at the age of three. A few years later, at the age of nine, he obtained his license in the tennis club which saw him grow up, Blagnac TC, near Toulouse. In 2016, the native of Toulouse joined INSEP, an elite school of French sport where athletes are trained to reach the top level. After winning a few junior trophies such as the Orange Bowl or the Australian Open in doubles and the Youth Olympic Games, Hugo Gaston revealed himself to the general public at Roland-Garros 2020 where the licensee from Blagnac notably beat Stan Wawrinka, former winner of the French Open before losing to the Austrian Dominic Thiem in the round of 16.
In 2017, he had his first success as a junior when he won the Orange Bowl, one of the biggest tournaments in the category after the Grand Slam tournaments. The following year, he won his first Grand Slam at the Australian Open in doubles with Clément Tabur. The same year, he participated in the Youth Olympic Games where he was the flag bearer of the tricolor delegation. Hugo Gaston won the gold medal in singles but also the bronze in men’s doubles and mixed doubles. His move into the big leagues was in February 2018 when he participated in his first ATP match at the Marseille tournament. Until 2020, he spends most of his time touring the Futures circuit tournaments where he plays a few finals. The native of Toulouse participated in his first Grand Slam in January 2020 where, invited by the organizers of the Australian Open, he lost in the first round in four sets against Jaume Munar.
Postponed due to Covid-19, Roland-Garros is disputed during the fall and Hugo Gaston benefits from an invitation for the final table. After eliminating his compatriot Maxime Janvier and the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, he defeated Stan Wawrinka to join the second week of the French Open and face Dominic Thiem, then 3rd in the world. If his wide offensive panoply and his ability to defend every ball has allowed him to defeat all his opponents so far, against the Austrian, it did not pass for the revelation of the tournament which lost in five sets. Since this 2020 edition of Roland-Garros, he has struggled to regain success despite a quarter-final at the Rolex Paris Masters 1000 in Paris-Bercy last year.
246th at the start of 2020, his career near Porte d’Auteuil had earned him enormous progress with 157th place in the ATP rankings. After his career at Paris-Bercy last year and a defeat in the quarter-finals against Daniil Medvedev, the licensee from Blagnac gained 36 places in the ATP and entered the Top 100 for the first time, reaching the 67th rank. global. Today, Hugo Gaston is ranked 68th.
On the professional circuit since 2018, Hugo Gaston has amassed over $1 million ($1,060,520m) in earnings from tournament performances.
Very discreet about his private life, Hugo Gaston sometimes publishes photos on his social networks of the one who shares his life, Laetitia.