Monfils And Safin Take It To The Limit!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Gael Monfils, FranceOn Sunday Frenchman Gael Monfils and Russian Marat Safin played the best match of the Sony Ericsson Open thus far hands down. Okay, of all the matches I've seen - which has been most.
Monfils and Safin took fans through damn near every emotion possible - joy, pain, anger, elation, anticipation, and on and on and on. I was so glad when it was over, I couldn't take any more.
To achieve the victory Monfils rallied from 2-5 down in the third set, and saved two match points on his way to a win that concluded the only way that it could have... in a tiebreak. Fortunately for Monfils and very unfortunately for Safin, Safin's serve went way south during the tiebreak.
After nearly three hours Monfils defeated Safin 5-7, 7-5, 7-6(3).
Of his performance, Monfils said, “It wasn't a good match for me today, I played very badly. I mean, I just survived. I never give up on the court. I had luck because he missed two shots on his match point, but purely tennistically [sic] it was very empty today. Nothing. Maybe I have a good serve sometime.”
And you drove those of us watching nuts!! But congratulation nonetheless.
Next up for Monfils is American Andy Roddick in the round of 16.
Marat Safin, RussiaPhotos by Getty Images
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