Tennis: Gasquet has the eighth title of his career Doha

DOHA (Reuters) - The French Richard Gasquet battled Saturday finals of Doha afford the eighth title of his career on the ATP Tour, beating Nikolay Davydenko.

The

2:30 Biterrois has to overcome the Russian and finally win 3-6 7-6 6-3.

"I'm really happy with the way I played this game," said the 10th player in the world. "Davydenko played with a lot of speed in the first inning. I just tried to stay focused and fight with strength, that I did."

Led

one handle anything and 4-2 in the second set, Richard Gasquet responded by removing two bullets 5-2 against him before pushing his opponent in the tie-break, won 7-4.

From that time, the Russian pavilion began to decline. After calling the trainer early in the decisive third round, he ended up bowing .

Richard Gasquet became the fourth French titrated Qatar Open, joining the winners of this competition Fabrice Santoro, Nicolas Escudé and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Olivier Guillemain for service français