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2014 FRENCH OPEN DAY 9: What!... What!... What!... The Frenchman Takes Out Garcia-Lopez, Sets Up Murray Quarterfinal
Monday, June 2, 2014
Frenchman Gael Monfils celebrates his 4th-round win over Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez at the 2014 French Open.
PARIS (Reuters) - Home favorite Gael Monfils reached the quarter-finals of the French Open for the fourth time when he ended the run of unseeded Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez with a 6-0 6-2 7-5 win on Monday.
The 23rd seed, who also made it to the last eight in 2008, 2009 and 2011, blazed through the first two sets and held off the world number 41 in the third, ending the contest on a sun-drenched court Philippe Chatrier with an ace.
Monfils will face British seventh seed Andy Murray for a place in the last four, a stage he reached in 2008 when he was defeated by Roger Federer.
"In the third set, when I broke him he started to go for his shots and played more freely," Monfils, whose preparations have been hampered by an ankle injury he sustained in early April, said courtside.
"I became too defensive so I had to accelerate again."
No French man has won their home slam since Yannick Noah in 1983.
During the first two sets, Garcia-Lopez was a pale shadow of the player who knocked out world No.3 Stan Wawrinka in the first round.
The Spaniard peppered the court with unforced errors, most of them from his forehand, the very shot that helped him progress to the last 16.
He went 2-0 down in the third before regaining his composure as Monfils, the last French player left in the singles, played too conservatively.
The Frenchman, who had advanced to this round after beating Italian Fabio Fognini in an unforced errors-fest, turned the situation around thanks to some fine returns and, spurred on by the crowd, broke decisively in the 11th game.
Next up is Wimbledon champion Murray, who fought hard to beat Spain's Fernando Verdasco in straight sets.
"He's such an entertainer," Murray said after his match.
"He is one of my favorite players to watch. There's going to be some fun points."
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FRENCH OPEN DAY 6: American Donald Young Fights Back To Fifth Set, But Not Able To Prevail Over Spaniard Garcia-Lopez
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Donald Young during third-round match against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez at 2014 French Open.
PARIS (AP) – Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain thwarted a comeback attempt by Donald Young of the United States and beat him 6-2, 6-4, 2-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4 Saturday at the French Open, making John Isner the only American man in the fourth round.
The 41st-ranked Garcia-Lopez, who surprised No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in the first round, is in the final 16 at a major tournament for the first time.
Young, who is from Chicago, was trying to pull off his first victory in a match after dropping the first two sets, but Garcia-Lopez closed it out after more than 3½ hours.
SOURCE: AP
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Gael Monfils Advances In Vienna
Thursday, October 29, 2009
VIENNA -- Third-seeded Gael Monfils of France beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in a straight-set, first-round match Wednesday at the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy in Vienna.
Monfils, the tournament's 2008 runner-up, defeated his Spanish foe 7-5, 6-4, winning 79 percent of service points and hitting seven aces.
If Monfils, a Paris native, wins the Vienna event, he will earn 160 points in his effort to qualify for the season-ending men's singles final at London next month.
Monfils, provisional 16th, faces long odds to make it into one of the two spots remaining for the ATP World Tour Final starting November 22 in London. But he says the chase is the last thing on his mind as he competes at the event where he lost the 2008 final.
"I'm really not thinking about London, not at all. I'm more excited about maybe winning a title here after missing it last year.
"I hope to play well here and next week in Valencia - maybe I can grab the title in Bercy (Paris Masters), that would help."
Source UPI/AFP
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