Fantastic Monfils wins the Open Sud de France

OPEN SUD DE FRANCE - MONTPELLIER RESULTS. Monfils wins his 8th career title after beating Pospisil in 2 sets.

By
Luke Meyer
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Monfils Popsisil

Gael Monfils defeats Vasek Pospisil 7-5 6-3 in the final in Montpellier on Sunday to claim his 9th career title, the 3rd in Montpellier.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the French Player conquered in the 12th game (7-5).

2nd set.

There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Gael conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the French Player scored 73 points vs. the Canadian’s 63 points.

Monfils served extremely well to win 77% of the points (43/56) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 42% points (10/24) on his second serve. Gael was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (2/4). On the other side, the Canadian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Monfils and Pospisil is 6-0 for Gael.

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Vasek Pospisil Open Sud de France – Montpellier

Interview

After the match, Gael commented:

“I am more than happy to win again in France,” said Monfils. “This is the third time in Montpellier and hopefully I can have some more. It has been a great week. I am very pleased about my performance today. I think I played very solid again and I was very happy with the way I handled the key moments.”

Gael will now head to Rotterdam where he will try to defend his title.

Tennis Scores in Montpellier