Tennis: Monfils shrugs off injury
The world number 10 looked to be out for weeks when he lost a gruelling semi-final.
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 17th, 2011.
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 17th, 2011.