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Match Reaction
\n Monfils reflects on Monte-Carlo journey: ‘I will remember every moment’<\/p>\n

Frenchman fell to Bublik on Tuesday in his 13th and final appearance in Monaco<\/p>\n

April 07, 2026<\/p>\n

\"Gael<\/p>\n

Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n

Gael Monfils plays his final match at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters on Tuesday.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n

Gael Monfils<\/a> may well have played his final match at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/a> on Tuesday, but the 39-year-old Frenchman leaves Monaco with more than two decades of vivid memories.<\/p>\n

Making his debut as a wild card in 2005 against Rafael Nadal<\/a>, Monfils quickly experienced the highest level and over the years, he produced standout moments, including a memorable victory over Roger Federer<\/a> en route to the 2015 semi-finals, before reaching the championship match in 2016. After his second-round defeat to Alexander Bublik<\/a> on Tuesday, Monfils addressed the Monte-Carlo crowd following what was his 13th and final appearance in the Principality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came here for the first time in 2005. It\u2019s a magnificent tournament, if not one of the most beautiful tournaments in the world,\u201d said Monfils, who is competing in his final season on the ATP Tour. \u201cI was kindly invited [as a wild card]. It was an honour and a privilege to play in 2005, and what an opponent I had first… I immediately got to taste the best of the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I played some of my best tennis [here]. Some great victories. I managed to beat Roger [in 2015]. They were really special moments and here I am again today trying to give you a good match. The years go by and the legs become heavier, but the love from the crowd is unique. Every time I really stepped on this court, it was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monfils closes his Monte-Carlo chapter with a 16-13 tournament record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. His most notable runs came in 2015, when he reached the semi-finals, and in 2016, when he advanced to the final \u2014 his third and most recent ATP Masters 1000 championship match \u2014 before falling to Nadal.<\/p>\n

Against Bublik on Tuesday, Monfils acknowledged he was running low on energy. The 39-year-old battled past Tallon Griekspoor<\/a> in three sets to reach the second round, but could not maintain that level, with Bublik producing a clean performance to draw level in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series at 2-2.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cATP<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the defeat, the former No. 6 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, Monfils leaves Monte-Carlo with a deep sense of appreciation for the tournament and its atmosphere while he continues his final season on Tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember every match I played, honestly, from the first to the last,\u201d Monfils said in post-match press conference after falling to Bublik. \u201cEvery moment I was able to step on that beautiful court. The chance of having played the tournament 13 times, I’m going to remember a bit of all that.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, he [Bublik] played a solid match. Not many mistakes. He was quite precise in what he did. I struggled a bit today. I lacked a bit of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Reaction Monfils reflects on Monte-Carlo journey: ‘I will remember every moment’ Frenchman fell to Bublik on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}