Gael Monfils bests Tiafoe in the 3rd round of the Rogers Cup. HIGHLIGHTS – TORONTO RESULTS

ROGERS CUP - TORONTO DRAW AND RESULTS. Monfils victorious over Tiafoe to take on John Isner in the quarter

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Gael Monfils vs. Frances Tiafoe

Gael Monfils overcomes Frances Tiafoe 6-1 7-6(2) in the 3rd round in Toronto on Thursday. Monfils will try to go further in the tournament when playing against John Isner in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes. His best result in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2016. Here you can see his history at this event.

Monfils
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Monfils's Record

The French player added to his prize money $ 29,000 after winning this match. He has won already $ 74,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Gael will add $ 47,500 to his earnings to get in total $ 121,500 in total.

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Frances Tiafoe Rogers Cup – Toronto

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Monfils
Tiafoe
Gael Monfils
6-1 7-62
1h:27
Frances Tiafoe
74
74
Total points
57
57
31
31
Winners
28
28
42%
42%
Ratio Winners
49%
49%
-- Serve --
11
11
Aces
3
3
5
5
Double Faults
3
3
63%
63%
1st in
64%
64%
84%
84%
1st won
61%
61%
31/37
31/37
1st won
28/46
28/46
55%
55%
2nd won
50%
50%
12/22
12/22
2nd won
13/26
13/26
-- Break Points --
3/9
3/9
Total
1/3
1/3
33%
33%
Won
33%
33%
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At the end of the match, Monfils scored 74 points vs. the American’s 57.

Monfils

Monfils served very well to win 84% of the points (31/37) behind his first serve, and he won 55% points (12/22) on his second serve. Gael blasted 11 aces and he committed 5 double faults. Monfils won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points after he converted only 33% (3/9) of the procured opportunities.

Tiafoe

On the other side, Tiafoe was far from perfect in converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Monfils and Tiafoe is 1-1.

Draw and next match H2H: Gael Monfils vs. John Isner – stats

Monfils will face Isner in the quarter.

This will be the 13th time that Gael Monfils and John Isner face off. The head to head is 7-5 for Monfils (see full H2H stats), but Isner leads 5-4 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Isner won 7-5 6-2 4-6 7-64 in the 2nd round in New York back in 2013.

Gael Monfils Draw info

Live score progression and stats

Monfils had a favorable start in this set after breaking Frances Tiafoe in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Monfils managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Frances in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).

A defining moment of this set was when the French player won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to bring the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

Gael converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40), the 4th (3-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (5-0 40-A). On the other side, Tiafoe was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 5th game (0-4 15-40 and 30-40).

They contested 48 points. The French player was the winner of the set after clinching 12 points more than Tiafoe (30-18). Monfils dropped 6 points on serve (16-6). Regarding the other side of the net, Tiafoe conceded 14 points on serve (12-14).

Monfils won the set after he broke Tiafoe in the 5th (3-2) game. Frances tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. Nevertheless, Monfils didn’t blink to finally clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 2.

Tiebreak

The French player won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 8th (6-2) and 9th (7-2) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2

 

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