A legend like no other <\/p>\n
How do you sum up two decades of out-of-this-world showmanship? How do you quantify a groundbreaking career defined by a limitless playing style that didn\u2019t just make fans cheer \u2014 it made them dream?<\/p>\n
In truth, it\u2019s difficult.<\/p>\n
Monfils has fond memories of turning pro in 2004, and in 2005 \u2014 the year he first came to Indian Wells \u2014 he started to believe that he could become one of the tour\u2019s elite players.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then, I was, like, \u2018Wow, I’m on this amazing ride, trying to enjoy every moment,\u2019\u201d he said earlier this week. \u201cAnd here I am in ’26, still playing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Be careful when considering the Frenchman\u2019s impact on the sport he has electrified for two decades. The contribution of Monfils, who has racked up 585 career wins and 13 ATP titles, cannot be measured by statistics. Wins, losses and titles are eclipsed by the Frenchman\u2019s capacity for turning his body into a bullet train, even as he approaches 40 years of age. Winners and unforced errors are secondary to his ability to launch his body into the air like no other player on tour would dare.<\/p>\n
Ask a current pro to name the best athlete on tour, and you\u2019ll probably get eight out of ten uttering his nickname: LaMonf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legend like no other How do you sum up two decades of out-of-this-world showmanship? How do you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-510082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}