Gael Sebastian Monfils was born on September 1, 1986 in France. He grew up in a sports family, from an early age he was fond of basketball. This hobby helped him a lot in his tennis career: the athlete masterly handles a tennis racket.
His father Rufin once moved to France from the overseas department of the eastern Caribbean of Guadeloupe. In the past, he was a professional football player and always instilled a love of sports for his son. The boy faced a choice between a football and tennis career. Monfils Gael chose tennis. Mother Silvet is a native of Martinique. The family has two children, Gael has a younger brother Derip.
A tennis player's favorite hobby is walking in between games and training. He prefers to walk while listening to music, his favorite R&B style. The love of basketball has not died out with age, and Gael Monfils plays with pleasure in his free time. His personal life is usually left behind the scenes.
Interesting Facts
The tennis player played in a small role in the video of Martin S. Gael, of course, played the role of a wonderful tennis player, that is, himself. The athlete coped with the role very well, because nothing had to be invented. Gael Monfils did what he knew best — playing tennis.
The beginning of the way
The future French athlete began his career in 2002, and two years later he already became a leader among juniors, having won in three of four tournaments. Gael then wins the ITF Futures. Then his procession is only gaining momentum, and he starts in the competitions of the ATP tour. Thanks to victories, Gael Monfils reaches the quarter finals, unfortunately, gives way to another French professional tennis player Richard Gasquet. In the same 2004, the organizers of the Masters tournament invited Gael to participate in the tournament, where the athlete was defeated already in the 2nd round from Australian professional tennis player Lleyton Hewitt.
Victories and defeats
The real full season Monfils plays in 2005 on the Asia-Pacific tour. In the Austrian championship, he starts in Grand Slam tournaments. Easy to reach only the 2nd round. In the winter of that year, the athlete wins the ATP Calenger. Gael later wins the tournament in Tunisia. This merit significantly raises his line in the ranking. Now he is in the first hundred people!
In the championship of France, the tennis player manages to win the title. This victory raises the player in the ranking already in forty-sixth place. Later in the fall, Gael manages to reach the finals, where, unfortunately, he dignifiedly gives way to the American professional tennis player Andy Roddick, who is the third player in the world.
For the whole season, Gael Monfils achieves incredible results and rises in the ranking by more than two hundred steps, occupies the thirtieth line in the Top 50. It earns almost half a million dollars.
Strip of failure
The next year for a tennis player begins with a loss to the first world racket, Swiss professional tennis player Roger Federer. Next, the athlete moves in the same vein. Monfils can not go beyond the first rounds, only at the French championship he manages to reach the fourth round. Then in the London competition, Gael gets to the quarterfinals, but he has to withdraw from the tournament due to health problems. The entire season becomes a failure for the tennis player, he managed to play in only a few tournaments. The result of the year was the loss of fifteen places in the ranking. By the end of 2006, the athlete took forty-sixth place.
Not so bad
In 2007, Gael Monfils reaches the third round of the Austrian championship. In the last spring month he goes to the finals of one of the tournaments. On the way to the final, the tennis player managed to beat several more strong opponents. In the decisive game, Gael loses. In the championship of France goes to the third round. In the following months of the year, Monfils continues to play at Wimbledon and reaches the third round. Unfortunately, he has to miss the American Championship, and because of health reasons, he does not take part in tournaments until the end of the year.
At the beginning of 2008, Gael misses the Australian Open, as recent injuries do not yet allow the athlete to play. His recovery dragged on for a long time, only in the middle of spring Monfils will be able to win two matches for the first time in the whole season and reach the third round. In May, the Challenger tournament wins. In 2008, Gael Monfils achieved the highest results in Grand Slam tournaments. After a series of tournaments, the tennis player gets a shoulder injury, because of which he has to miss Wimbildon. He rehabilitates his place in the ranking well and occupies the fourteenth line by the end of the year.
2009, the tennis player begins with passing to the semifinals at the Doha tournament. At the championship in Australia, Gael enters the fourth round and this is where for him participation in the championship ends. In mid-winter, Monfils reaches the semi-finals in Rotterdam and the finals of the tournament in Acapulco. And again injured, he is forced to miss the Wimbledon tournament. In the fall, for the first time in four years, he wins the title at the ATP tournament. As a result, the tennis player rises one step in the ranking and takes 13th place. Giving an interview in 2009, he often liked to mention his place in the Gael Monfils ranking. The athlete's biography includes many interesting details about tournaments in general and sports in particular.
And again Wimbledon
The next year begins for a tennis player from Brisbane. Finally, for a lot of time he manages to take part in Wimbledon, where it comes to the third round of Gael. Staying in good shape, Monfils plays a gorgeous game in Paris, this year he managed to get to the finals. For 2010, the athlete manages to rise one more step in the ranking, and now he takes 12th place.
In the first half of 2011, the tennis player goes to the finals in Melbourne and loses. In the summer he participates in semifinals at several tournaments in Hull, Hamburg, then in the finals in Washington. After the tournament in Nice, in which Gael Monfils lost, the athlete no longer plays the main part of the game due to knee problems. In the first half of 2016, or rather, on January 27, in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, Monfils Gael meets with a strong opponent. Raonic Milos, a Canadian tennis player, the former fourth racket of the world, beat the Frenchman and passes on.