First Frenchman in the ATP ranking, the world No.23 has given up participating in Wimbledon and will return to competition in Hamburg, he announced on Thursday June 23.
Frenchman Gael Monfils, already absent from Roland-Garros due to a right heel injury, has announced his withdrawal from the Wimbledon tournament, which begins on Monday, but plans to return to the circuit in mid-July in Hamburg.
“My team and I have made the decision not to play Wimbledon this year,” he said in a post on Twitter on Thursday.
The London Grand Slam is the least successful for him, with only one round of 16, played in 2018. “I will rather focus on my preparation in order to be ready for the summer”, adds Monfils, who will celebrate his 36 years old on September 1st.
Training this week and happy event in perspective
“I started training again this week and I felt very good,” said the world No.23, and first tricolor player in the ATP ranking.
“I will resume competition in Hamburg (from July 16) then in Kitzbühel before going to the United States,” explained Monfils, whose last match on the circuit ended in a defeat against the Serb Novak Djokovic in Madrid in early May.
His wife, the Ukrainian player Elina Svitolina is pregnant with a baby girl whose birth is expected in October.
