At almost 39, “La Monf” disgusted its compatriot on Tuesday on the London lawn.
Unusable, eternal … You must never bury Gaël Monfils: led two sets to one and pain for months, the veteran of French tennis has defeated his compatriot Ugo Humbert in five sets, Tuesday in the Franco-French poster of the first round of Wimbledon.
Winner 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (5/7), 7-5, 6-2, Le Parisien, almost 39 years old, became the oldest French in history to climb to the second round of Wimbledon, where he will face the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (105th). “La Monf” (38 years and 303 days) supplants his compatriot Stéphane Robert in the three -color history, who had reached the second round of Wimbledon at 38 and 59 days in 2019.
It mainly put an end to the hopes of Ugo Humbert to reissue his 2019 and 2024 career at the All England Club, when the Gaucher Messin had rose in the round of 16.
«There were ups and downs, but a victory is a victory“The winner was delighted at a press conference. “”It is its favorite surface, and the one I like the least, so for me is only bonus!Smile Monfils. “”He still gave us a Gaël“Sighed Humbert, obviously killed after his defeat. “”In the fifth set, I felt that we were both hard. Bravo to him. I gave my maximum, I am disappointed to go out in the first round», Sorry the Messin.
Cap backwards under the setting sun for Ugo Humbert, more or less controlled short background slips by Gaël Monfils: any poster it was, the game took place in a sometimes potache atmosphere.
Mano a mano until the decisive round
As at the end of the third set, when Monfils came to type in Humbert’s hand at the net after an unstoppable cushioning which had however cost him the Channel. “”He is one of the players I played the most in my career, he has always been benevolent towards meHumbert slipped in reference to his one -night executioner.
The shock was not devoid of issues, both for Monfils, in pain since the epilogue of the season on hard at the end of March, as for Humbert, slowed down by injuries during a good part of spring and forced to abandon in the second round of Roland-Garros after a bad slide.
On the court n.12, the elder was as “dangerous” as the cadet had anticipated him, going up a break behind in the first round before awarding him, on a lawn which he hardly appreciates. Again at the helm in the second act, Humbert did not drop them this time to equalize a set everywhere. After this observation round, the two French people delivered the two most disputed heats in the match.
The third fell into Humbert’s handle, semi-finalist on the Dutch lawn of ‘S-Hétogenbosch and English of Eastbourne in June, and the fourth in the bag of “La Monf”, encouraged in the stands by his wife Elina Svitolina, qualified on Monday for the second round.
Possible reunion with Shelton
Breaké at the start of the decisive round, Humbert never managed to start again and conceded his commitment a second time to 4-2, leaving his opponent to the victory. A wink of the draw: in the event of a victory in the second round, Monfils could find in the third round the American Ben Shelton (10th).
The same one who had put an end to his fantastic start to the season in Oceania, by beating him in the round of 16 of the Australian Open a few days after a title of the French at the Auckland ATP 250 tournament who had made it the older tournament winner for almost 50 years. Pending these possible reunion, Monfils equalized to three victories all over his duels with Humbert. And deprived the blue clan of its only seeded in Wimbledon.
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