Sat, 12/04/2010 - 07:26 by Prince damin
Belgrade, Serbia -- Singles wins by France's Gael Monfils and Serbia's Novak Djokovic Friday left the two countries tied at 1-1 in the Davis Cup final.
Monfils began the best-of-five championship with a 6-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 victory over Janko Tipsarevic. Djokovic then pulled his country into a tie by downing Gilles Simon 6-3, 6-1, 7-5.
Monfils takes on Djokovic and Simon plays Tipsarevic in reverse singles Saturday.
In doubles, it will be Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra of France against Viktor Troicki and Nenad Zimonjic.
France is seeking its 10th Davis Cup title, Serbia its first.
The French team captain is Guy Forget and the Serbs' captain is Bogdan Obradovic.
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Sun, 11/14/2010 - 07:40 by harsheeb
Paris -- Gael Monfils ousted top-seeded Roger Federer Saturday, advancing to face Robin Soderling for the BNP Paribas Masters title in Paris.
The 12th-seeded Frenchman struggled mightily to dispose of the Swiss superstar, eventually notching an exhausting 7-6 (9-7), 6-7 (1-7), 7-6 (7-4) victory -- his first in six career matches against Federer.
With the hard-fought win, Monfils made the Paris finals for the second straight year. He went down to Novak Djokovic in the title match a year ago.
Soderling, meanwhile, saved three match points to rally and defeat French favorite Michael Llodra 6-7 (0-7), 7-5, 7-6 (8-6) in the other semifinal.
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Mon, 11/01/2010 - 08:05 by harsheeb
Montpellier -- Gael Monfils of France dethroned Croatian Ivan Ljubicic as champion of the Sud de France Open Sunday, downing him 6-2, 5-7, 6-1.
The third-seeded Frenchman won his third career title and first since Metz last year.
No. 4 seed Ljubicic had won the Sud de France twice, once last year when it was based in Lyon and in 2001 for his first career title.
Monfils improved to 3-4 lifetime against Ljubicic with the victory.
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Sat, 10/30/2010 - 23:57 by Prince damin
Montpellier, France -- Gael Monfils of France and Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic gained the finals of the Sud de France Open Saturday, each defeating semifinals opponents.
Monfils, the No. 3 seed, posted a 7-6 (7-2), 2-6, 6-4 triumph over fellow Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, while Ljubicic prevailed over Spain's Albert Montanes in a 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) decision.
Monfils, 24, advanced to his third final of 2010 after producing the only break of the third set, beating his countryman for the first time in three meetings. Second-seeded Tsonga had downed Monfils in semifinals at Bangkok in 2008 and Tokyo last year.
Ljubicic, meanwhile, ripped off 18 aces during his 77-minute match and won 91 percent of the points on his first serve.
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Sun, 10/10/2010 - 21:55 by Prince damin
Tokyo -- Rafael Nadal collected his seventh ATP title of the year with a straight-set victory Sunday over Gael Monfils in the finals of the Japan Open tennis tournament.
Nadal, who is assured of being the No. 1-ranked player through the end of the year, improved to 66-8 in 2010 with a 6-1, 7-5 win over the fifth-seeded Monfils.
Nadal didn't face a break point and dropped just 11 points -- only four in the first set -- in his 10 service games.
Monfils landed 85 percent of his first serves and had nine aces in winning 62 percent of points on serve. But he had little answer for Nadal's serve and was unable to counter the three service breaks he suffered as Nadal won more than 90 percent of the points when his first serve was in.
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Sun, 07/18/2010 - 10:54 by Rakhi
Stuttgart, Germany -- Gael Monfils of France and Spain's Albert Montanes will face off for the Mercedes Cup title after each won semifinal matches Saturday in Stuttgart, Germany.
Monfils, the third seed, was forced into a third set by Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver before prevailing 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, thanks to four aces in the decisive final set at Tennis Club Weissenhof.
No. 5 seed Montanes, meanwhile, get past fourth-seeded countryman Juan Carlos Ferrero, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6).
Montanes claimed a win in his only other meeting with Monfils, which came in 2005.
The Frenchman will be seeking his third career singles crown and first of the year, while Montanes will be vying for his fifth ATP title and second this season after taking the Estoril event in May.
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Sat, 07/10/2010 - 01:13 by Pankaj Damin
Clermont-Ferrnad, France -- Wins Friday by Gael Monfils and Michael Llodra put France on the verge of eliminating two-time defending champion Spain from this year's Davis Cup tournament.
Monfils battled to a 7-6 (7-3), 6-2, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4 victory over David Ferrer and Llodra followed with a 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) win over Fernando Verdasco for a 2-0 French lead in the best-of-five quarterfinal.
A French win in Saturday's doubles -- in which the French will send Julien Benneteau and Llodra against the Spanish duo of Feliciano Lopez and Verdasco -- or if Monfils or Llodra win one of the reverse singles matches Sunday would put France into the Davis Cup semifinals.
It would also knock out the Spanish, who have won the Davis Cup in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2009.
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Tue, 05/11/2010 - 09:03 by harsheeb
Madrid -- Gael Monfils collected a straight-set victory Monday in first-round action at the Madrid Open clay-court tennis tournament.
Monfils, seeded 12th, was the only seeded men's player on Monday's schedule and swept past Stephane Robert 6-2, 7-5. Monfils recorded three of his five service breaks in the first set in advancing.
Benjamin Becker turned in the day's most impressive showing, dispatching Carlos Moya 6-0, 6-2 in 63 minutes. Becker won 65 percent of the points in the match and dropped a mere 13 points over seven service games.
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Mon, 01/11/2010 - 21:48 by Inderjit Singh
Sydney -- No. 1-seed Gael Monfils withdrew Monday form the Medibank International tennis tournament in Sydney because of a shoulder injury.
Monfils, from France, said his right shoulder was inflamed and he needed to rest the injury ahead of the start next week of the Australian Open. He apparently aggravated an earlier problem during last week's tournament in Brisbane, Australia, where he lost in the semifinals to Radek Stepanek.
On the court Monday, seventh-seeded Igor Andreev was defeated, losing 6-7 (7-9), 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) to Leonardo Mayer in the day's only match involving a seeded player.
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Thu, 11/05/2009 - 10:31 by shalini.bahadur
Valencia, Spain -- Third-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France was among Wednesday's losers at the Valencia Open men's tennis tournament at Valencia, Spain.
Tsonga was trailing 0-3 to Russia's Mikhail Youzhny in the third set when a left wrist injury forced him to retire.
Tsonga won the first set, 7-6 (7-3), while Youzhny won the second, 6-0.
The loss dropped Tsonga 380 points behind No. 8-ranked Fernando Verdasco of Spain in the battle for a berth at next week's season-ending Paribas Masters at Paris.
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Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:23 by shalini.bahadur
Vienna -- Third-seeded Gael Monfils beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in a straight sets first-round match Wednesday at the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy at Vienna.
Monfils, the tournament's 2008 runner-up, defeated his Spanish foe 7-5, 6-4, winning 79 percent of service points and hitting seven aces.
If Monfils, a Paris native, wins the Vienna event, he will earn 160 points in his effort to qualify for the season-ending men's singles final at London next month.
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Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:16 by Inderjit Singh
Metz -- Frenchman Gael Monfils overcame German Philipp Kohlschreiber in three sets Sunday, winning the Open de Moselle in Metz, France.
Monfils, the tournament's top seed, won his second ATP title by a score of 7-6 (7-1), 3-6, 6-2.
Kohlschreiber, who was the second seed, has two titles on the tour. He last won at Auckland, New Zealand, in 2008.
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