Gaël Monfils a montré de très belles choses lors de cette tournée nord-américaine et veut briller à l'US Open. Le Français aime les nuits new-yorkaises. Il a évité un piège au premier tour mardi soir contre un joueur issu des qualif', Taro Daniel. Succès 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6(4). La Monf' a été bien inspiré de ne pas s'embarquer dans un cinquième set. Petit hic, une chute dans le deuxième set. "Je vais dire la vérité, je me suis fait mal au poignet, celui qui avait été touché à Roland-Garros. La différence, c'est que cette fois, je suis strappé. Le poignet est un peu engourdi, mais je pense que le strap m'a beaucoup aidé et j'espère que ça ira bien. Mais j'ai confiance", a t-t-il déclaré à L'Equipe après la rencontre. Malgré cette frayeur, il affrontera Andrey Rublev (n°8) au deuxième tour. Un sacré défi.
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00:00 I was happy that I could test myself, of course, in four setters,
00:07 but still today was a humid, tough condition.
00:11 But with matches during the swing, it helped me, the confidence.
00:17 I took confidence with a lot of matches, and I think that's why I won this one.
00:23 If not, it would have been too tough for me.
00:25 So I can see that I play with a lot of confidence of my shots.
00:30 And I've been very lucky on some today, and I can see that's definitely
00:36 because I've been winning a couple matches, and they helped me a lot today.
00:41 Final one from me.
00:43 Francis, I talked to him about Noah Lyle's comments that had the NBA players
00:49 all laughing and upset with him, or that reaction.
00:53 Francis and Michael Mollis, they were laughing about that situation.
00:56 Do you have any thoughts about that?
00:58 Which one?
00:59 With Noah Lyle as a track athlete, where he said the NBA should not call
01:03 themselves world champions in that track situation.
01:07 Yeah, I saw that.
01:12 It's your story.
01:14 I'm European, so I want to answer that.
01:18 Leave it to Francis.
01:20 You mentioned the humidity. How does that affect you out on the court?
01:26 You felt a bit heaviest. I felt a bit heaviest today.
01:29 I feel the ball were heaviest. It was a slow condition.
01:32 It was quite different.
01:35 I felt like when I came here, ball were flying a lot.
01:38 It was really tough to control the ball, and today was a little bit the opposite.
01:42 I was set up way too early at the first set.
01:46 It was moving different today.
01:51 I had to adapt myself a little bit.
01:54 You could see I didn't turn around so much with my forehand.
01:58 I played a lot of backhand because I felt like it was quite heavy and tough
02:03 to turn around the forehand today for a long period of time.
02:07 So I had to adjust myself and adjust my game to win today.
02:13 For you, whether it was in Paris this year, here,
02:22 what you hear from the crowd and the support,
02:25 what for you does that do when you're out on the court?
02:28 A lot. To be honest, they helped me a lot in the fourth set
02:34 because I wanted to finish in fourth, of course, but this is an extra boost.
02:40 It's someone helping you, giving you even more belief.
02:45 It's just amazing.
02:49 I always try to take any energy, any smile, any shout,
02:57 anything to boost myself of adrenaline
03:02 because it does put you a lot of adrenaline.
03:05 With adrenaline, I feel like you serve a little bit bigger.
03:10 You go a little bit wider with your shot.
03:12 That's what you're looking for.