TENNIS SCORES. Gael Monfils downs Shapovalov in the 3rd round of the U.S. Open

Gael Monfils hustles Denis Shapovalov 6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3 in the 3^rd round in New York on Saturday. Monfils will fight against Pablo Andujar in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Monfils overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Shapovalov in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Shapovalov refused to bow to come back to break Monfils in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 8^th (4-4) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.

2^nd set.

Gael won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 9^th (4-5) game, The French Player broke back in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 4.

3^rd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the French Player conquered in the 5^th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).

4^th set.

Denis won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 5^th (1-4) game. The Canadian broke back in the 6^th (2-4) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 6.

However also the French Player won 4 consecutive games from 0-1 to 4-1

5^th set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Gael conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

After this contest, the head to head between Monfils and Shapovalov is 1-0 for Gael.

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Denis Shapovalov U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Gael Monfils vs. Pablo Andujar – stats

Monfils will take on Andujar in the 4^th round.

This will be the 4^th time that Gael Monfils and Pablo Andujar face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Monfils (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Monfils won 7-5 6-4 in the semifinal in Nice back in 2013.

Tennis Scores at the Us Open

• Andrey RublevRublev – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (7-6⁵ 7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Aljaz BedeneBedene (6-7⁴ 7-6⁴ 6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Marin CilicCilic – John IsnerIsner (7-5 3-6 7-6⁶ 6-4) – See score progression
• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Alexander BublikBublik (6-4 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-4 6-4 6-7³ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Rafael NadalNadal – Hyeon ChungChung (6-3 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (7-5 7-6⁸ 6-2) – See score progression
• Roger FedererFederer – Daniel EvansEvans (6-2 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Denis KudlaKudla (6-3 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-2 6-4 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Feliciano LopezLopez (7-6¹ 4-6 7-6⁷ 6-4) – See score progression
• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-4 7-6⁹ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 7-6⁵ 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• David GoffinGoffin – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (7-6⁵ 7-6⁹ 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (20-5) – See H2H details
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-0) – See H2H details
• Roger FedererFederer – David GoffinGoffin (8-1) – See H2H details
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (1-1) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Pablo AndujarAndujar (3-0) – See H2H details
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (1-1) – See H2H details
• Marin CilicCilic – Rafael NadalNadal (2-6) – See H2H details