A dream has passed.
Once again.
For Gaël Monfils, it's always time for regrets.
And observations.
It is the seventh time in a Grand Slam that the Parisian has lost in five sets, after having erased a handicap from two sets to zero (for only two victories in this case).
“I try so hard to win these kinds of games, like today… and I lose it, as usual.
A lot of effort to lose”,
he conceded disappointed after his defeat (6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 3-6, 6-2), in the quarter-finals of the Open. Australia.
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Monfils had nevertheless given himself the right to believe in a comeback.
After suffering the law for two sets from an excellent Matteo Berrettini, the 20th in the world, back to the wall, relaxed and released missiles in forehand and backhand.
A festival, before turning off the light for ten minutes.
Time to collect a fatal double break in the fifth set, facing, it is true, a seventh player in the world reinvigorated.
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