Novak Djokovic brushes past Gael Monfils 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in Cincinnati on Thursday after playing a great match to come up against Taylor Fritz in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 8 minutes. The Serbian won this tournament twice in 2018 and 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.
Djokovic added to his prize money $ 77,215 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 166,020 after this win. If he wins the next match, Djokovic will add $ 138,355 to his earnings to get in total $ 304,375 in total.
Highlights Novak Djokovic vs. Gael Monfils Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:08
At the end of the match, the Serbian scored 62 points vs. Gael’s 39.
Djokovic
Djokovic served extremely well to win 81% of the points (22/27) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (12/19) on his second serve. The Serbian was pretty focused in converting 80% of the break points that he conquered (4/5).
Monfils
On the other side, Monfils was remarkable in converting the only break point that he converted. Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Djokovic and Monfils is 19-1 for Novak.
Draw and next match H2H: Novak Djokovic vs. Taylor Fritz – stats
Djokovic will square off with Fritz in the quarter.
This will be the 7th time that Novak Djokovic and Taylor Fritz play each other. The head to head is 6-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Djokovic conquered in the 8th game (5-3) just before ultimately winning the set (6-3).
Gael had no answers in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-3 to 6-3.
Djokovic converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A), the 7th (4-3 0-40) and the 10th game (6-2 40-A). On the other side, Novak didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 61 points. The Serbian was the winner of the set after clinching 15 points more than Gael (38-23). Novak was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (20-4). On the losing side, Gael conceded 18 points on serve (19-18).
Djokovic came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Gael Monfils in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Nevertheless, there was more work to do for the Serbian to win the set since Gael found the way to break back in the 6th (1-5) game.
Novak failed to serve out the set when leading 5-0 to be broken at 15.
Certainly, a key moment was when Djokovic won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Djokovic was spot on in converting all his break points in the 3rd (2-0 40-A) and the 4th game (4-0 15-40). On the other side, Gael was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (0-5 15-40).
They contested 40 points. Djokovic conquered the set after winning 8 more points than Monfils (24-16). Djokovic lost 8 points on serve (14-8). on the other side of the net, Gael conceded 10 points on serve (8-10).
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (6-2 1-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Tommy PaulPaul (7-66 6-70 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Taylor FritzFritz – Dusan LajovicLajovic (5-0 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-4 3-0 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-7) – H2H details and stats
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (0-6) – H2H details and stats
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Max PurcellPurcell (0-0) – H2H details and stats
