Given the catastrophic departure of our French from the first days of the Australian Open, we can almost consider ourselves happy to see one of them climb into the knockout stages. And not surprisingly, it was the Monf who did the job. The tricolor qualified Saturday for the second week by excluding the Latvian Ernests Gulbis (256th world) 7-6 (7/2), 6-4, 6-3.
In the next round, the Parisian who had not reached the 8th in Melbourne since 2017, will face the Austrian Dominic Thiem (5th) whom he has never beaten in 5 games, the last going back to the 8th finals at Roland- Garros last year.
Monfils, outsider (too much?) Assumed
“He is a player who poses a lot of problems for me, agreed Gaël Monfils. Generally, tactically he 's good to me, and physically he always puts me in a fight that I find it hard to hold because of his tactics. It's up to me to embarrass him, to put him in more uncomfortable positions.
“In general, in the rally, he is the one who has the most control. It's up to me to try to be a bit more aggressive. But not too much: the last time, I wanted to be much too aggressive and I made a lot of mistakes. It's up to me to look, but we must not forget that he is stronger than me! ". Do you also feel the big dose of confidence? Gasquet, get out of this body!
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