38-year-old Gael Monfils sent fourth-placed Taylor Fritz to the stands at the Australian Open.
French veteran Gael Monfils38, surprised the fourth-seeded American in men’s singles By Taylor Fritz set 3–6, 7–5, 7–6 (7–1), 6–4 and advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open tennis tournament. Monfils won 95 percent of the starting points with his first pass.
Monfils is Roger Federer’s after the second-oldest male player ever to make the top 16 at the Australian Open. Monfils is playing in the Australian Open for the 19th time and now advanced to the fourth round for the sixth time.
– I strongly believe in myself. I believe I can still make a good mark and with a little luck we will be in the second week of the Australian Open, said Monfils.
He will next face the US Ben Shelton’s and Italy by Lorenzo Musetti the winner of the match between
Swiatek convincingly continues
In women’s singles Iga Swiatek snapped the Briton Emma Raducanu won 6–1, 6–0 and went to the top 16. Swiatek has won the grand slam singles title five times, but has never advanced to the final in Melbourne.
– It felt like the ball was listening to me. “I feel much fresher than the last two years, when I felt more tired and stressed,” Swiatek said.
Swiatek will next face the German Eva Lysinwho defeated the Romanian by Jaqueline Cristian.
Paldanius opened with a win
Finnish Oskari Paldanius won the boys’ singles in the first round of Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar 7–5, 6–4, 6–0. Before this, Paldanius, 17, had won only one match in the main series of grand slam tournaments in the US Open championship tournament.
– It was really cool to play with big Finnish support. It was hard to get used to the field and the environment at first, but little by little the small tactical changes started to work. Of course, there were really good feelings when the victory came. I was satisfied with my game, especially in the third set, Paldanius commented on the Tennisliito website.
The story was updated with the Oskari Paldanius section at 10:01 am.