It wasn't so long ago that David Goffin's immediate outlook was, well, blurry. In February, the 27-year-old was trailing 3-6, 0-1 in his semi-final match against Grigor Dimitrov at the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament when he framed an attempted volley directly into his left eye. That led to the premature end to the match and required an immediate trip to the hospital. The eye injury wasn't deemed serious, but it was still bad enough that the Belgian was forced to withdraw from events in Marseille and Indian Wells. It also required the use of a special contact lens in the damaged left eye while competing. Goffin admits his eyesight isn't completely clear. After his Round of 16 win over...
It wasn't so long ago that David Goffin's immediate outlook was, well, blurry. In February, the 27-year-old was trailing 3-6, 0-1 in his semi-final match against Grigor Dimitrov at the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament when he framed an attempted volley directly into his left eye. That led to the premature end to the match and required an immediate trip to the hospital. The eye injury wasn't deemed serious, but it was still bad enough that the Belgian was forced to withdraw from events in Marseille and Indian Wells. It also required the use of a special contact lens in the damaged left eye while competing. Goffin admits his eyesight isn't completely clear. After his Round of 16 win over...
David Goffin was made to work hard on Thursday to beat Roberto Bautista Agut at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters for a place in the quarter-finals for the second consecutive year. The sixth-seeded Belgian found a way to beat fellow baseliner, No. 11 seed Bautista Agut, 6-4, 7-5 in one hour and 42 minutes on Court Des Princes, the second show court at the Monte-Carlo Country Club. “In the second set there were big points that hurt me physically, but I was able to win them,” said Goffin. “He always fights until the last point. He gives away no points. You have to fight for each point. At 5-5, I was able to turn it up a notch for me to...
Five months ago, Grigor Dimitrov and David Goffin faced each other in the most important match of their careers in the 2017 Nitto ATP Finals championship match. On Monday, they put their singles rivalry aside, partnering for the first time in their careers to beat Frenchmen Adrian Mannarino and Fabrice Martin 7-6(3), 6-2 in 75 minutes at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. The Bulgarian-Belgian pairing had never played doubles with or against each other at any professional level, and Goffin, who had not played doubles since last April, owned just a 4-20 record in the discipline. So perhaps it was not a surprised when the team of singles stars trailed 3-0 in the opening set, but they battled back from there....
