'Right from 2002, making my debut and 22 years later still getting to represent India. I'm extremely proud of that.'
Images from the US Open men's singles first round matches, at Flushing Meadows, New York, on Tuesday.
Monfils, 35, reached the last four at the 2008 French Open and repeated the feat eight years later at the 2016 US Open but has never reached a Grand Slam final.
Sabalenka overpowers Raducanu, Osaka falls
'She said YES Madame MONFILS @elisvitolina #July2021 (XV)(III)', the Frenchman captioned a picture with Svitolina donning a sizable diamond ring and Monfils in the background.
Svitolina was back practising on Tuesday at the Ariake Tennis Park, where she will don Ukraine's colours
Holger Rune rallied from a set down and saved a match point to defeat former champion Taylor Fritz 2-6 7-6(2) 6-3 on Wednesday and reach the Indian Wells quarter-finals where he will meet fourth seed Daniil Medvedev.
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 2, on Sunday, July 28, 2024:
Elena Rybakina set up a showdown with 2021 French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova for a place in Saturday's final.
Monfils was playing in his first match in nearly seven months after the season resumed following the COVID-19 hiatus.
World No 1 Carlos Alcaraz fended off in-form American Tommy Paul to reach the Cincinnati Open quarter-finals on Thursday
IMAGES from Day 4 of the Wimbledon Championships, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on Thursday.
'I cannot serve, I make mistakes ... I do not feel right and it shows.'
IMAGES from Day 6 of the Wimbledon Championships, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on Saturday.
Here are images from a hot, hot day from Melbourne Park...
Coco Gauff battled past Elina Svitolina in the Auckland Classic final on Sunday to retain her title.
Rising star Brandon Nakashima handed fellow American John Isner a first round defeat at the Indian Wells.
Novak Djokovic produced a superhuman effort to subdue Argentine Francisco Cerundolo.
In the decider, Berrettini broke twice for a 4-2 lead but a rejuvenated Monfils dug deep and raced around the court to fight off three match points to force a final-set tiebreak. But it was Berrettini who leaned on his powerful serve to prevail and become the fourth Italian man to reach a Grand Slam semi-final in the Open Era.
Djokovic, playing his first tournament for six months because of an elbow problem, dropped his opening two service games and although he battled back to break Monfils twice he wavered again as scrappy opener went his opponents' way.
A 55-shot, marathon rally brought fans to their feet in Flushing Meadows on Friday but nearly leveled the two men who lived through it, Norwegian Casper Ruud and Russian Karen Khachanov, competing in their US Open semi-final.
World number 14 Gael Monfils has withdrawn from the French Open with a viral infection, the grand slam organisers said on Friday. "@Gael_Monfils withdraws from #RG16 because of a bad virus. Get well soon and see you for #RG17 Gael," they said in the official French Open Twitter feed. The 29-year-old Frenchman joins world number three Roger Federer, who pulled out of the year's second grand slam on Thursday citing a lack of fitness. Monfils, who reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open this year, has had a mixed tour so far, having not getting past the second round in the Madrid and Italian Open this month, but reached the final of the Monaco Open in April.
A clinical Milos Raonic stormed past Gael Monfils 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open for the first time.
Stanislas Wawrinka's array of shots was too much to handle for a resurgent Gael Monfils as the 2015 champion reached the French Open quarter-finals with a 7-5, 7-6(7), 6-2 victory on Monday.
Djokovic first played Monfils at the US Open in 2005 but Tuesday's match was only their second encounter on clay and he needed only one break point to clinch the first set.
Dominic Thiem defeated qualifier Facundo Bagnis of Argentina 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
Earlier, title holder Borna Coric beat American Sebastian Korda 7-6 (5), 6-4, while another home hope Taylor Fritz survived a first-set thriller to beat Czech Jiri Lehecka 7-6 (14), 6-2.
Stefanos Tsitsipas enjoyed an incident-free path into the third round of the French Open with a win over Roberto Carballes Baena.
Carlos Alcaraz's US Open preparations suffered a setback on Friday as the world number one fell to American Tommy Paul
Daniil Medvedev lost his world number one ranking after being defeated by Gael Monfils
Images from Day 6 of the 2024 Australian Open in Melbourne on Friday.
India's Yuki Bhambri produced one of the biggest wins of his career as he shocked World No. 22 Gael Monfils in the second round of the Citi Open.
Shapovalov will meet Rafael Nadal for a place in the semi-finals.
Fifth seed Roger Federer was dumped out of the Shanghai Open, losing to Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 in the third round on Thursday.
Hauling itself up from World Group II should not be a complicated task for India when it takes on an unostentatious Morocco in the home tie, which will be more of a celebration of Rohan Bopanna's Davis Cup career.
Gael Monfils said playing Novak Djokovic in temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday was a 'risk' to health and that the 25-second rule between points should have been relaxed.
Nick Kyrgios produced a serve-and-volley masterclass to topple world number one Daniil Medvedev 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-2 for his eighth straight win on a day of upsets, while American Tommy Paul rallied to beat Spanish second seed Carlos Alcaraz.
World number one Novak Djokovic saved three match points to beat France's Gael Monfils 2-6, 7-6(8), 6-1 on Friday as he set up a final showdown at the Dubai Open with Greek second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas. Djokovic is yet to lose this year and the Australian Open champion extended his unbeaten run in 2020 to 17 matches with what was also his 17th win over Monfils.
World number one Novak Djokovic scrapped his way into the US Open final for a seventh time on Friday with a confounding 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 win over enigmatic Frenchman Gael Monfils.
Novak Djokovic beat Gael Monfils as inaugural champions Micromax Indian Aces signed off their IPTL campaign with a 15-29 defeat against Musafir.com UAE Royals in Dubai on Saturday.
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