When a player who doesn’t have a game that day shows up unexpectedly in the press room at eleven o’clock at night, it’s bad business. The French Gael Monfils announced that he would withdraw from the tournament, not even twenty-four hours after staging a heroic comeback against the Argentine Sebastian Baez.
He won, 36, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 1-6 and 7-5 in 3h.47′ of play. Between cramps he came back from 0-4 and ball from 0-5 in the fifth set.
Plagued by injuries, he added another to his record, which led him to drop to 394th place in the world ranking.
“I passed the pulse tests and the doctors told me I had to stop, that I had taken too many risks,” he said.
“I’ll do more tests to find out how long I have to stop, if I can play the grass tour. I’m assimilating it, because how many Roland Garros do I have left to play?”
Give way to the Dane Holger Rune in the third round, a tie in which his wife, the Ukrainian, is Elina Svitolina.
Source: La Verdad
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