Gael Monfils beats Radu Albot 4-6 6-4 6-1 in the 3rd round in Paris on Thursday. Monfils will face Denis Shapovalov in the 4th round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st 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 3rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).
2nd set.
The French Player conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 7th (3-4) game, Monfils broke back in the 8th (4-4) and in the 10th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.
3rd set.
The French Player won the set after he broke Radu in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (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 4th round.
This will be the 2nd 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 3rd 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