Coming to Paris, his record was not much to write at home: he played a match and then fell ill in Madrid and, when he had recovered, he had too many aid and regular pain to play in Rome. And then he lost his first round in Hamburg.
At the same time, he decided to separate from the company of Mikael Tillström, his coach of the last two years. Tillström spent several spells with our hero during the career of Monfils – the spells when he played well – but the relationship had followed his course.
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“I stopped my work with my coach,” he said. “It is therefore a big change, which is at a time quite complicated, because Roland-Garros is never easy. Clay is very complicated, very complicated. So I try to give everything during the games.”
He never played Hugo DellienThe world’s number 90 in Bolivia. All that Monfils knows is that he will try to play as he always plays: with elastic members and a breathtaking bravado, with passion and with panache. And maybe he will win. And maybe he won’t do it. It’s monfils for you.