The German players are decidedly not successful in Gaël Monfils.
Unrecognizable, the French leader had suffered last week the law of Dominik Koepfer, 66th world, in Rome 6-2, 6-4.
Always so uninspired, the Parisian hit rock bottom Tuesday in Hamburg against Yannick Hanfmann, 103rd, 6-4, 6-3 Recent finalist in Kitzbühel and winner of the Aix Challenger, the German is certainly a confident player and fit, but a "normal" Monfils should have folded the case.
Except that the Monf 'is amorphous and springless since its return to business on the circuit.
With 14 winning strokes for 18 unforced errors, he was only a shadow of himself.
He hoped to find landmarks in Hamburg, he left with his head filled with doubts ... He had overlooked the US Open.
A wise choice, we thought.
Obviously no.
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Monfils: "I need matches and competition to find the rhythm"
The Parisian - author of a very good start to the season before the forced five-month break due to the health crisis - had ants in his legs after skipping the American tour.
He whispered to Rome: “All is well.
It's cool to come back to the tournament, to find the other players.
I trained a lot.
Obviously, there is a little fatigue, but physically I am well.
I am ramping up.
But I still lack benchmarks.
I need matches and competition to find the rhythm.
I have his correct feelings in training but when I do training sets, I realize that I need to match ”.
For the French number one the problem would be more in the head than in the legs.
“It's been two days that I feel that I am very stressed, he slipped in Rome after his elimination.
Today, it can be seen that I have no benchmarks, that I cannot let go completely.
It's a really bad game.
It frustrates me enormously to have played so badly. ”
Deprived of landmarks with Roland-Garros which begins on Sunday, Monfils worries more than ever ...
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