Gael Monfils will make his debut at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals after becoming the sixth player to qualify for the prestigious season-ending tournament, to be held from 13-20 November at The O2 in London. The Frenchman joins Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka, Milos Raonic and Kei Nishikori in the elite field, securing his berth following Dominic Thiem’s loss today at the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna. Thiem is looking to join Monfils as debutants at the prestigious season finale and currently sits in the eighth position in the Emirates ATP Race To London. “It feels great to qualify for the (Barclays) ATP (World Tour) Finals for the first time in my career,” said Monfils. “It is...
The season-ending European indoor swing is here and the Emirates ATP Race To London has entered the home stretch. The final ATP World Tour 250 events of the year will be held next week at the VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow, inaugural European Open in Antwerp and If Stockholm Open. Contenders are jockeying for positions to secure the three remaining berths at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, with four players sitting within 1,000 points of Dominic Thiem and the coveted eighth spot. In position to make his debut at The O2 from 13-20 November, Gael Monfils currently occupies the sixth spot with 3,625 points. The Frenchman will be looking to separate himself from the pack as the top seed...
Gael Monfils survived an injury scare, then finished strongly to down fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-1, 6-4 and book a spot in the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2016 quarter-finals on Thursday. Monfils earned only his second victory in eight FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings with Simon, and snapped a four-match losing streak against his good friend. “In the second set, Gilles started to run a lot better. He played really great for four games or so and I knew I needed to be patient for his level to come back down a bit,” Monfils said. “At the same time, I still needed to be the aggressor. I’ve made improvements mentally, physically and technically this year, and that helped me today...