{"id":534115,"date":"2026-03-11T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534115\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:26:09","slug":"gael-monfils-out-of-miami-open-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534115\/","title":{"rendered":"Gael Monfils Out of Miami Open \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, March 11, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Matthew Calvis<\/p>\n<p>INDIAN WELLS\u2014The sun has set on Gael Monfils\u2019 Sunshine Double.<\/p>\n<p>Monfils, who lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4 in the Indian Wells second round, announced he won\u2019t be playing next week\u2019s Miami Open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>In a Q&amp;A with fans on X, Monfils was asked if he will play ATP Masters 1000 events in Miami and Monte-Carlo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not playing Miami, and I don\u2019t know yet about MC,\u201d Monfils replied.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Je joue pas Miami,et je sais pas encore pour MC<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gael Monfils (@Gael_Monfils) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gael_Monfils\/status\/2031442765955891446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 10, 2026<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>For fans dreaming of Monfils partnering wife Elina Svitolina in doubles, it won\u2019t happen at the French Open, however Monfils left the door open to possibly playing the US Open Mixed Doubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll do the mixed doubles at RG but maybe at US,\u201d Monfils said, adding a winking emoji to his response.<\/p>\n<p>Former world No. 6 Monfils announced last fall that 2026 would be his farewell season to the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn exciting new generation of players is already here,\u201d Monfils said. \u201cAnd I hope they\u2019ll enjoy their time on court as much as I have for the last two decades.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, March 11, 2026Photo credit: Matthew Calvis INDIAN WELLS\u2014The sun has set on Gael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-534115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534115","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=534115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}