Tennis: Monfils shrugs off injury

STOCKHOLM: France’s Gael Monfils has shrugged off a knee injury scare in time to take top seeding at the Stockholm Open, which begins today. The world number 10 looked to be out for weeks when he lost a gruelling semi-final to Donald Young in Bangkok a fortnight ago, then hurried to Paris for a scan on a troublesome knee. But with a positive result from the tests, Monfils feels ready to participate in Stockholm and make a run through to the end of the season. Juan Martin del Potro and Stanislas Wawrinka are seeded second and third at the event.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17^th, 2011.