In his last outing on a match court, Fils defied the odds to beat Jaume Munar in a thrilling four-hour and 25-minute second-round clash at Roland Garros. The 21-year-old received an off-court medical time-out during the match and got bagelled.<\/p>\n
But he stormed back to win 7-6 7-6 2-6 0-6 6-4 and ripped his shirt off in celebration. Munar later claimed that Fils had simply been cramping and added: \u201cIf you have a real injury, you don’t play the fifth set like he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the former world No. 14 called a press conference ahead of his third-round match, where he announced that he was suffering from a stress fracture in his back and pulled out of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Fils is finally ready to return to competition, and he\u2019ll be back in action on Court 1 in Toronto on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Ahead of his return, the three-time title winner told the ATP<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s pretty nice. It\u2019s been a long time [that] I didn\u2019t see [my] friends on the Tour, so now I am happy to be back.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, it changed a lot since two months. I was in shape, I was playing pretty good. Now I\u2019m coming back, still in shape, but not playing good. But it\u2019s pretty nice to be back and I\u2019m enjoying [it].\u201d<\/p>\n Fils has been staying busy away from the court and spending time with his friends and family, but the 21-year-old is happy to see some of his friends and colleagues after two months away.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I step back into the Tour it\u2019s always nice to see some familiar faces like Gael [Monfils] or Ben [Shelton], or Foki [Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, whose wedding he attended<\/a>]. It\u2019s nice to be back and to see these guys,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I stepped on the court, I was excited. After five minutes, I was already mad. But it\u2019s nice to be back to playing. It\u2019s been 10 days now that I’ve been playing. I feel that the level is going better and better day after day. So, I\u2019m pretty happy.\u201d<\/p>\n Fils, who was ranked at a career-high of No. 14 when he pulled out of the French Open, will be hoping he can find his feet when he takes on Carreno Busta, whom he beat in Barcelona earlier this year.<\/p>\n To be the first to receive the latest tennis news, join our WhatsApp community<\/a> or newsletter<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his last outing on a match court, Fils defied the odds to beat Jaume Munar in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[30659,64,63,11230,30660,85,747,750,749],"class_list":["post-33219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-arthur-fils","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canadian-open","tag-national-bank-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33219","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=33219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}