As Baez closed in on a 6-1 fourth, an out-of-gas Monfils appeared to be readying himself for a fifth-set charge.īut it looked as though it wouldn’t come: Baez again broke from go, then broke a second time for a 4-0 lead. Monfils encouraged the crowd’s growing roars.īaez skipped to a 3-0 lead in the fourth in minutes, though, Monfils doubling over at the side of the court in exhaustion. Monfils won set three in a marathon 12th game, sealed with a backhand miss on a return from the Argentine. Yet he roared to life with his back to the wall: Monfils saved those set points and broke Baez with a backhand winner down the line to the delight of the Court Philippe-Chatrier crowd, which included a trio of blaring horns.
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