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Wild card Gael Monfils upsets Tomas Berdych at French Open
The match took more than four hours and ended at twilight when Berdych hit a backhand long. Monfils then pounded his chest with his fist as the crowd roared one last time.
Paris:
Wild card Gael Monfils of France thrilled a partisan center court crowd on Monday by upsetting No. 5-seeded Tomas Berdych in the first round of the French Open, 7-6 (8), 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-7 (4), 7-5.
The match took more than four hours and ended at twilight when Berdych hit a backhand long. Monfils then pounded his chest with his fist as the crowd roared one last time.
Monfils, a former top-10 player mounting a comeback from a right knee injury, hit 26 aces and was broken only once.
Berdych, the Wimbledon runner-up in 2010, has lost in the first round at a major event 10 times.
Topics mentioned in this article
Tennis
French Open 2013
Roger Federer
Mahesh Bhupathi
Radek Stepanek
Rafael Nadal
Tomas Berdych
Caroline Wozniacki
Agnieszka Radwanska
Pablo Carreno Busta
Guillaume Rufin
Bernard Tomic
Kevin Anderson
Jie Zheng
Novak Djokovic
Andy Murray
Gael Monfils
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
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