DUBAI RESULTS. Gael Monfils beats Gasquet in the quarter of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships

Gael Monfils prevails over Richard Gasquet 6-3 6-3 in the quarter in Dubai on Thursday. Monfils will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Novak Djokovic in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Monfils won the set after he broke Gasquet in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. That break was the key for Gael to conquer the set as he didn’t drop his serve in the rest of the set.

2^nd set.

Monfils conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Gasquet in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, that was not enough for Monfils to win the set since Richard managed to break back in the 7^th (2-5) game.

Monfils failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 15.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Gael scored 71 points vs. Gasquet’s 54 points.

Monfils served exceptionally well to win 77% of the points (23/30) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (10/16) on his second serve. Gael won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 21% (4/19). On the other side, Richard was remarkable in converting all the break points (1/1). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Monfils and Gasquet is 11-7 for Gael.

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Richard Gasquet Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Gael Monfils vs. Novak Djokovic – stats

Monfils will come up against Djokovic in the semifinal.

This will be the 17^th time that Gael Monfils and Novak Djokovic clash against each other. The head to head is 16-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 11-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Djokovic won 6-3 6-2 in the R in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney back in January 2020.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Andrey RublevRublev (6-2 7-6⁹) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Gael MonfilsMonfils (16-0) – See H2H details
• Daniel EvansEvans – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – See H2H details