Gael Monfils topples Shapovalov in the 1st round to play vs Sinner at the ABN AMRO Open. HIGHLIGHTS – ROTTERDAM RESULTS

ABN AMRO OPEN - ROTTERDAM DRAW AND RESULTS. Monfils dispatches Shapovalov to take on Jannik Sinner in the 2nd round

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Gael Monfils vs. Denis Shapovalov

Gael Monfils beats Denis Shapovalov 7-6(4) 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Rotterdam on Wednesday. Monfils will seek to keep on going in this event against Jannik Sinner in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes. The French player won this tournament twice in 2019 and 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.

Monfils
Rotterdam
Monfils's Record

Monfils added to his prize money € 14,570 after winning this match. He has already won € 31,225 after this win. If he wins the next match, the French player will add € 27,270 to his earnings to get in total € 58,495 in total.

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Denis Shapovalov ABN AMRO Open – Rotterdam

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Monfils
Shapovalov
Gael Monfils
7-64 7-65
1h:37
Denis Shapovalov
84
84
Total points
75
75
41
41
Winners
38
38
49%
49%
Ratio Winners
51%
51%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
14
14
0
0
Double Faults
2
2
66%
66%
1st in
58%
58%
77%
77%
1st won
83%
83%
41/53
41/53
1st won
38/46
38/46
74%
74%
2nd won
55%
55%
20/27
20/27
2nd won
18/33
18/33
-- Break Points --
0/1
0/1
Total
0/3
0/3
0%
0%
Won
0%
0%
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At the end of the match, Gael scored 84 points vs. Shapovalov’s 75.

Monfils

The French player served extremely well to win 77% of the points (41/53) behind his first serve, and he won 74% points (20/27) on his second serve. The French player wasn’t able to conquer any break point to win the match only at the tiebreaks.

Shapovalov

On the other side, Denis wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this match, the head to head between Monfils and Shapovalov is 2-1 for Gael.

Draw and next match H2H: Gael Monfils vs. Jannik Sinner – stats

Monfils will take on Sinner in the 2nd round.

This will be the 6th time that Gael Monfils and Jannik Sinner clash against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Sinner (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on I.hard.

Gael Monfils Draw info

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1st Set -
Monfils HTML
MonfilsShapovalov
HTML
M
0
0
S
0
0

The French player won the set after he broke the Canadian .

Gael wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 9th game (4-4 30-40). In addition on the other side, Denis wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 2nd game (1-1 30-40).

They contested 88 points. Gael was the one to win the set after conquering 6 points more than Denis (47-41). The French player dropped 15 points on serve (35-15). on the other side of the court, the Canadian conceded 12 points on serve (26-12).

2nd Set -
Monfils Not
Not
0
0
0
0

Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, the French player won the breaker at 7-5.

Tiebreak

Gael won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 11th (6-5) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Shapovalov won 2 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3) and 9th (4-5) point.

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

Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, the Canadian was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 7th game (3-3 15-40 and 30-40).

They played 71 points. This set was a huge battle since finally the French player won just 1 point more than Denis (36-35). Gael dropped 8 points on serve (26-8). In addition, on the other side, the Canadian conceded 10 points on serve (27-10).

1st
Monfils
Shapovalov
7-6
7
6
6
6
5
6
5
5
4
5
4
4
3
4
3
3
2
3
2
2
1
2
1
1
0
1
2nd
Monfils
Shapovalov
7-6
7
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
0
 

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