After having already given up the Rotterdam tournament, Gaël Monfils will not return to competition next week in Marseille either. The 36-year-old tennis player is now targeting Indian Wells and Miami.
The Open 13 loses one of its headliners! While he was to make his comeback to competition next week in Marseille, Gaël Monfils finally unregistered from the Provençal tournament. The current 210th in the world has not revealed the reasons for his withdrawal, but we can assume that they are the same ones that prevented him from playing in the Rotterdam tournament this week. “I’m a little too tight, I’m also getting used to my new shoes. I will do everything to play for Marseille. But if I don’t hurt myself, the American tour is 100% yes.”he confided on his Twitch channel last weekend.
We will therefore have to wait until March to see Gaël Monfils on the courts again, near Indian Wells then Miami, the first Masters 1000 of the season. Tournaments where he will benefit from a protected ranking (he can do so in twelve tournaments for a year), since he has not played for six months. Injured in one foot, the 36-year-old has not stepped on a court in competition since his retirement in the third round of the Montreal tournament in the second set of his match against Briton Jack Draper on August 11.
Khachanov package too
Forfeited for the rest of the 2022 season, he then voluntarily gave up the Australian Open in order to reach six months without playing, which will allow him to play his recovery tournaments with the classification he had during his injury (20th) and not his real ranking. Gaël Monfils will not drop much further in the standings by the start of the Indian Wells tournament, since he had not already played at this time of year in 2022. Another player withdrew for the Marseille Open 13 on Tuesday, in the person of Karen Khachanov, who should have been the No. 3 seed, behind Holger Rune and Hubert Hurkacz.
