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7/19/10 3:16 PM | Johan Lindahl
Gael Monfils will have to watch his step in the coming weeks after an ankle injury in the first set contributed to his loss in the final of the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart.
The hyper-athletic Frenchman turned his ankle in the final game as he lost the opener against Spain's Albert Montanes, who went onto book the 6-2, 1-2 victory, picking up a cheque as well as a new Mercedes.
Monfils will carry on this week in Hamburg on clay, receiving a bye which means a mid-week start and more time to heal. "My ankle just got worse and worse," said the No. 17. I thought I could come back. But I wasn't 100 percent."
"Albert would have figured out he needed to just move me around for the win," said the player competing in his first final of the season.
Monfils was still pleased with his week's effort. "I played pretty good tennis, a lot of confidence came back. To reach a final again was pretty exciting. I had a bad experience but hopefully it will be better soon and I can get back to my best level and try to reach some other finals.”
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I have this mental image of him practicising the splits before each of his training sessions and want to tell him this is tennis, man, not a gymnastics display! After a while his incessant tumbling and wild antics begin to pall.
I have this horrible fear that one of these days he will be stretchered off the court with a seriously serious injury and never seen again.
ed251137 , 7/20/10 11:19 AM
Monfils strikes me as having all the tools & being capable of really brilliant moves, but he often seems just as ready to throw the match away on a whim, as if he were bored with conventional play.
heninesque , 7/21/10 10:02 AM
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A friend tells me he's already withdrawn from Hamburg, where he was going to compete.
mara002 , 7/20/10 4:00 AM