Athletistic / Tennis. In the second round of the men’s singles of the US Open (US Open), Russian Andrei Rublev and Frenchman Gael Monfils will meet
SPORT.RU invites you to a direct-to-text online broadcast of this meeting:
Tennis. US Open. Second turn. Monfils – Rublev. Direct
On Thursday, August 31, the US Open Men’s Singles (US Open) will host the tournament-leading second-round matches. In one of them, the Russian Andrei Rublev will fight with the French Gaël Monfils for a ticket for the 1/16 finals. Despite the fact that the two tennis players have been playing at the professional level for quite a long time, their meeting today will only be the third face-to-face. In view of the results of the previous two, parity remains in the confrontation between the French and the Russian.
Formerly 6th racket in the world, Gaël Monfils has not often pleased his fans with good results in recent years. Everything is to blame for the famous Frenchman’s injury. Not so long ago, Monfils, 36, even started talking about a possible retirement next year. In the meantime, Gael is striving to regain his old form, trying to get back into the top hundred of the ATP rankings. The Frenchman has a good series of hard tournaments on the American continent. For example, at the Toronto Masters, Monfils managed to reach the quarter-finals, eliminating Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas from the tournament in the process. At the US Open, Gael started as the world’s No. 162 racket, but after his first victory in the tournament, he managed to move up 26 positions in the rankings. If the Frenchman beats Rublev, he will progress another 13 lines. Recall that in the first round match, Monfils dominated the Japanese Taro Daniel in 4 sets (4:6, 6:4, 6:2, 7:6). Gaël scored 23 times until the end, but at the same time he committed 12 double faults.
Andrei Rublev is the 8th seed at the US Open, but thanks to his victory in the first round of the tournament, the Russian has already improved his position in the standings by one line. At the same time, our tennis player has not performed well in recent tournaments. So, at the Toronto Masters, Andrey lost in the first round to the American McDonald (4:6, 3:6), and at the Cincinnati Masters, Rublev again failed at the start of the tournament. The Russian lost to Finn Ruusuvuori in the third set tie-break. With the same Finn, our tennis player was supposed to start his way to the US Open, but Emil withdrew from the tournament due to injury. As a result, Rublev defeated Frenchman Arthur Cazeau in the first round (6:4, 7:6, 6:1).
Between them, Monfils and Rublev met twice, having won a victory in these matches. The Frenchman was stronger in the 2018 Doha tournament (6:2, 6:3), when he beat Andrei in the final. And in 2021, at the Cincinnati Masters, our tennis player took revenge in the third round – 7:6, 7:6. As for today’s match, the bookmakers consider Rublev the favorite for the match. We can bet on Andrey’s victory with a coefficient of 1.56, while Monfils’ success is estimated at 2.44 points.
Tennis. US Open. Second turn. Monfils – Rublev. Direct
The live online broadcast of this match will begin on SPORT.RU August 31 at the earliest on August 21:30 hours of Moscow
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