Gael Monfils: biography and tennis career

Gael Sebastian Monfils was born on September 1, 1986 in France. He grew up in a sports family, from the earliest childhood was fond of basketball. This hobby helped him a lot in tennis career: an athlete skillfully handles a tennis racket.

His father Rufinus once moved to France from the overseas department of the eastern Caribbean Sea of Guadeloupe. In the past, he is a professional football player and always instilled a love of sport for his son. Before the boy there was a choice between football and tennis career. I chose Monfils Gael tennis. Mother Silvet is a native of Martinique. The family has two children, Gael has a younger brother, Daryp.

The favorite hobby of a tennis player are walks in breaks between games and trainings. He prefers to walk, listening to music, his favorite R & B style. The love of basketball has not faded with age, and plays with pleasure in his spare time Gael Monfils. His personal life usually remains off-screen.

Interesting Facts

The tennis player played a small role in the video of Martin S. Gael, of course, played the role of a wonderful tennis player, that is, himself. With the role, the athlete coped very well, because nothing had to come up. Gael Monfils did what he could do best: playing tennis.

The beginning of the way

The future French sportsman started his career in 2002, and two years later he became the leader among juniors, having won in three of four tournaments. Next, Gael wins on ITF Futures. Then his procession is just gaining momentum, and he starts in the ATP tour. Thanks to the victories, Gael Monfis enters the quarterfinals, already there, unfortunately, gives way to another French professional tennis player Richard Gasquet. In the same year 2004, the organizers of the Masters tournament invite Gael to take part in the tournament, where the athlete is defeated in the 2nd round by Australian professional tennis player Lleyton Hewitt.

Victory and defeat

The real full season of Monfils plays in 2005 on the ATP tour. At the Austrian championship, he starts in the Grand Slam tournaments. It is easy to reach only the 2nd circle. In the winter of the same year, the athlete wins the victory in the ATP Calenger. Later, Gael wins in a tournament in Tunisia. This merit greatly raises his line in the ranking. Now he is in the first hundred people!

In the championship of France, the tennis player manages to win the title. This victory raises the player in the ranking already in the forty-sixth place. Later in the autumn, Gael manages to reach the final, where, unfortunately, he gives up with dignity to the American professional tennis player Andy Roddick, who is the third player in the world.

For the entire season, Gael Monfils is achieving incredible results and rises in the ranking of more than two hundred steps, ranked thirtieth in the Top 50. Earns almost half a million dollars.

A series of failures

The next year for the tennis player begins with the loss of the first world racket, the Swiss professional tennis player Roger Federer. Then the athlete moves in the same vein. Monfils can not go beyond the first rounds, only in the championship of France he manages to reach the fourth round. Then in the London competition, Gael reaches the quarter-finals, but he has to withdraw from the tournament because of health problems. The entire season is becoming a flop for the tennis player, he managed to play only a few tournaments. The result of the year was the loss of fifteen places in the ranking. By the end of 2006, the athlete is ranked 46th.

Not everything is so bad

In 2007, Gael Monfils reaches the third round of the Austrian Championship. In the last spring month he goes to the final of one of the tournaments. On the way to the final, the tennis player managed to beat a few more powerful opponents. In the decisive game, Gael loses. At the championship of France goes into the third round. In the following months of the year, Monfils continues to play at Wimbledon and reaches the third round. Unfortunately, he has to miss the championship of America, also because of the reasons for his health, he does not participate in tournaments until the end of the year.

In early 2008, Gael misses the Australian Open, as recent injuries do not allow the athlete to play. His recovery was tightened, only in the middle of spring, Monfils will be able to win for the first time in the entire season in two games and reach the third round. In May, the Challenger tournament wins. In 2008, Gael Monfils achieved the highest results in the Grand Slam tournaments. After a number of tournaments, the tennis player gets a shoulder injury, which is why he has to miss Wimbildon. He well rehabilitates his place in the ranking and by the end of the year he occupies the fourteenth line.

2009 tennis player begins with the passage to the semifinals at the tournament Doha. At the championship in Australia, Gael enters the fourth round and on this for him participation in the championship ends. In the middle of winter, Monfils enters the semi-finals in Rotterdam and the final of the tournament in Acapulco. And once again injured, he is forced to miss the Wimbledon tournament. In autumn, for the first time in four years, he won the title in the ATP tournament. As a result, the tennis player climbs one step in the ranking and takes 13th place. Interviewed in 2009, he often liked to mention his place in the ranking of Gael Monfils. The biography of the athlete includes many interesting details about tournaments in general and sports in particular.

And again Wimbledon

Next year begins for a tennis player from Brisbane. Finally, for a long time he manages to take part in Wimbledon, where it comes to the third round of Gael. Staying in good shape, Monfils plays a chic game in Paris, this year he managed to get to the finals. In 2010, the athlete manages to climb one more step in the ranking, and now he is already 12th.

In the first half of 2011, the tennis player goes to the final in Melbourne and loses. In the summer he participates in the semi-finals at several tournaments in Halle, Hamburg, then in the final in Washington. After the tournament in Nice, in which Gael Monfils lost, the sportsman no longer plays the main part of the games because of problems with the knee. In the first half of 2016, to be exact, on January 27, in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open with a strong opponent meets Monfils Gael. Raonich Milosz, a Canadian tennis player, the former fourth player of the world, beats the Frenchman and goes on.