Tennis: Monfils upset by Granollers

Monfils was upset 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 by unseeded Spaniard Marcel Granollers.

VALENCIA:

Gael Monfils suffered a setback in his bid to qualify for this month’s World Tour finals when the third-seed was upset 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 by unseeded Spaniard Marcel Granollers in the quarter-finals of the Valencia Open. The Frenchman must now win next week’s Paris Masters to have a chance of securing one of three remaining places in the eight-man, season-ending competition in London.

Meanwhile, sixth-seed Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro boosted his London hopes by beating unseeded American Sam Querrey 6-2, 7-5 and top-seed David Ferrer reached the last-four by defeating former world number three Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 6-4.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 6^th, 2011.