Gael Monfils and Yibing Wu will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Citi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on John Harris. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gael Monfils who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Gael Monfils is the pick to win this match.
Gael Monfils -> 1.21
Yibing Wu -> 4.4

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Prediction and head to head Gael Monfils vs. Yibing Wu

There is no head to head record between Gael Monfils and Yibing Wu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Gael Monfils

Gael Monfils

18 - 12win/loss

Hard
14-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
3-3
Grass
1-3
Rank
68
High
6
LLLLLWLLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-15 14-9 3-3 0-0 1-3 0-0
2024 25-21 15-11 3-6 2-2 5-2 0-0
2023 16-15 8-8 2-4 6-3 0-0 0-0
2022 14-7 13-5 1-1 0-1 0-0 0-0
2021 18-17 8-7 2-4 7-3 1-3 0-0

Ranked no. 48, Monfils will start his run in Washington after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-4 1-6 4-6 7-6(5) 6-4 to Fucsovics in the 2nd round on the 4th of July.

The French player has an aggregate 18-11 win-loss record in 2025, 14-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title in Auckland where he beat Zizou Bergs in the final 6-3 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Monfils has an overall 679-376 record. He has a positive 264-145 record on hard.

Previously in Washington

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2016. See his history.

Washington
Monfils's Record

Yibing Wu

Yibing Wu

17 - 5win/loss

Hard
15-3
I Hard
0-0
Clay
2-2
Rank
181
High
54
LLWWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-10 23-8 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 9-5 7-4 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 18-17 5-7 3-5 9-1 1-4 0-0
2022 40-7 20-5 10-2 10-0 0-0 0-0
2021 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 243, Wu got to the 1st round after defeating Mitchell Krueger 4-6 6-3 7-6(3) and Corentin Moutet 4-6 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications against Moutet, Wu recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-4). During the match Wu scored 110 points vs Moutet’s 98. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Wu struck 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Yibing Wu lost the serve 5 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Wu put 63% of his first serves in, winning 64% (38/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Moutet 6 times after converting 38% of his break points (6/16).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Wu started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Tyler Challenger where he beat Yi Zhou in the final 6-4 3-6 6-3.

The Chinese has a composed 16-5 win-loss record in 2025, 14-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Washington
Wu's Record

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