PARIS RESULTS. Monfils conquers Albot in the 3rd round of the BNP Paribas Masters

Gael Monfils beats Radu Albot 4-6 6-4 6-1 in the 3^rd round in Paris on Thursday. Monfils will face Denis Shapovalov in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that the Moldovan conquered in the 3^rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

The French Player conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 7^th (3-4) game, Monfils broke back in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

3^rd set.

The French Player won the set after he broke Radu in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game. That was decisive for Monfils to conquer the set since he didn’t drop his serve in the rest of the set.

Radu was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

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

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Radu Albot BNP Paribas Masters – Paris

Next Match: Gael Monfils vs. Denis Shapovalov – stats

Monfils will play Shapovalov in the 4^th round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Gael Monfils and Denis Shapovalov fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Monfils (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Monfils won 6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3 in the 3^rd round in Us open back in August 2019.

Tennis Scores in Paris

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Kyle EdmundEdmund (7-6⁷ 6-1) – See score progression
• Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (2-6 6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Radu AlbotAlbot (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Rafael NadalNadal – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Christian GarinGarin – Jeremy ChardyChardy (6-7⁴ 6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Rafael NadalNadal (4-9) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-2) – See H2H details
• Christian GarinGarin – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-1) – See H2H details