The French number 1 had no longer imposed on the ATP circuit from the Rotterdam (Netherlands) tournament in February 2020, before the Pandemic of Covid-19. This is the eleventh title of his career.
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It’s been two years since he had not won a trophy. The number 1 French, Gaël Monfils, won this trophy in Adelaide, Australia, at the expense of Russian Karen Khachanov (29 e ), in two sets (6-4, 6-4) Sunday, Eight days of the Australian Open (January 17th to 30th). Gael Monfils, 35 years old and 21 e had no longer imposed on the ATP circuit from the Rotterdam tournament (Netherlands) in February 2020, before the Pandemic of Covid-19. This is the eleventh title of his career.
The French player had then experienced immense difficulties at the recovery of the circuit in the middle of health, between closed seeds and sanitary constraints. Between September 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics last summer, he has only won three games, despite his beginning 2021 with Günter Bresnik, the former Dominic Thiem coach. It started to find colors in second half last season, until the final in Sofia in October.
“Very proud and very happy”
“This is our first title with my team. Difficult moments have been experienced, but we’ve returned hard in July last year,” has traced Monfils. “I am very proud and very happy to have won this tournament,” he added.
Monfils had completed 2021 on a package during the Masters 1000 from Paris early November, before his eighth de finale expected against the world number 1, Novak Djokovic. Victim of a muscular lesion to the adductors, he had then said at the same time “frustrated” and happy to finish with a “horrible year”, and had posted his desire “to arrive at the top in 2022, with Big entrance results “.
It was for the moment successful: in Adelaide, where he was number 1 headboard and launched his season with a new racket, the number 1 French did not lose the slightest set in four games played . On Sunday, it has been particularly strong at the service and breaker in the end of the sleeve in both sets to reach itself in just an hour and twenty minutes.