Tennis star Richard Gasquet is still not gay...

Well, if he says so.

French tennis star Richard Gasquet, the guy who beat Andy Roddick at Wimbledon this year, gave a post-match interview earlier this month and seemed to feel the need to reiterate that he is not gay. What makes this all the more curious is that it is the second time he has done this publicly and what's even more curious is that no one even asked him!

Here is the interview which was flagged by Outsports.com:

Q. Now your matches are finished. Do you still have any plan to go around the city maybe with your uncle or your girlfriend?

GASQUET: My uncle? No. My girlfriend, no. I have no girlfriend, so I will try to find one, one Chinese girl. Why not? Why not? I lost 6-1, 6-1. It will be very hard for me tonight. I'm ready to lose, you know.

Q. Who is the girl watching your match with your uncle?

GASQUET: Not my girl. I don't know. Not my girl, for sure. No, no, no, I have just friends. Men friends, but I'm not gay.

It would seem that his defensiveness about his sexuality is due to the fact that earlier this year, the eighth-ranked Gasquet denied he was gay after French magazine Le Point printed a rumor that he was having an affair with 46-year-old married French businessman Arnaud Lagardere.

"I was absolutely not happy about that," he said then. "This question has come back hundreds of times, and every time someone turns up saying, Oh, I have evidence. It is just bullshit. Neither him nor me are homosexuals. It's absolutely obvious."

Hmmmmm. Nothing is obvious these days Richie!