New record holder for withdrawals, after throwing in the towel against Ben Shelton in the round of 16 of the Australian Open, Gaël Monfils was defended by journalist Benoît Maylin during the show “Sans Filet” on Winamax.
“You still have to imagine that this guy has had a knee deformity since adolescence because of his growth. He constantly fought not to have inflammation in his knee. And imagine with his tennis, this elasticity required of his body to play these matches in defense. If we have to give Gaël a ‘slap’, it is perhaps in this way of playing, which is his tennis, but which demands so much from his body that little by little, he was unable to finish his seasons or he was often injured. Of course we can count the abandonments… but the guy is done! If we look at this tournament, Sinner scared us with the heat. Temperature and climate variations can be terrible at the Australian Open. We don’t see them, calm on our sofa watching the matches. It was cooked, that’s all, there’s no need to go looking for explanations”
Published on Monday January 20, 2025 at 2:57 p.m.
