The 39-year-old’s most consistent period came in the mid-2010s, when the ‘big three’ – Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal – were at their peak. <\/p>\n
The Frenchman reached a career-high ranking of sixth in the world in 2016 after reaching the semi-finals of the US Open, when he was beaten by Djokovic. <\/p>\n
Monfils’ run at Flushing Meadows was the second of two Grand Slam semi-final appearances in his career, having lost to Federer in the last four of the 2008 French Open. <\/p>\n
“While I came close, I never did win a Grand Slam during my career,” continued Monfils.<\/p>\n
“I won’t pretend that I expect to do so during the next year.”<\/p>\n
The Frenchman inflicted a shock defeat on world number one Carlos Alcaraz at the Cincinnati Open in 2024.<\/p>\n
But the Spaniard and world number two Jannik Sinner have won nine of the past 10 Grand Slams between them.<\/p>\n
“An exciting new generation of players is already here and I hope they’ll enjoy their time on the court as much as I have for the last two decades,” said Monfils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 39-year-old’s most consistent period came in the mid-2010s, when the ‘big three’ – Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-182546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}