{"id":302866,"date":"2023-06-01T03:07:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=302866"},"modified":"2023-06-01T04:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T04:59:25","slug":"french-favourite-pulls-out-after-five-set-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=302866","title":{"rendered":"French favourite pulls out after five set epic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A thrilling five-set victory took a toll on Gael Monfils<\/a>, whose withdrawal from Roland-Garros handed No.6 Holger Rune a walkover to the third round.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Frenchman said he has a strained left wrist and could not continue.<\/p>\n

He battled Sebastian Baez for nearly four hours on Court Philippe Chatrier before beating the Argentine 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 1-6, 7-5 in a first-round match that ended at 12.18am local time Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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The victory was Monfils' first at tour level this year, as the veteran was coming back from heel surgery.<\/p>\n

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\u201cActually, physically, I\u2019m quite fine. But I had the problem with my wrist that I cannot solve,\u201d he said. \u201cThe doctor say was not good to play with that type of injury. Yesterday was actually very risky, and then today definitely say I should stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Monfils reached the semi-finals at the French Open in 2008 and made it to the quarter-finals on three other occasions.<\/p>\n

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A thrilling five-set victory took a toll on Gael Monfils, whose withdrawal from Roland-Garros handed No.6 Holger Rune a walkover to the third round. The […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302871,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302866\/revisions\/302871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/302868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}