French males’s tennis was braced for its worst Roland Garros efficiency of the fashionable period on Thursday when Gael Monfils grew to become the seventeenth of 18 gamers who began the occasion to exit earlier than the French Open third spherical.
World quantity 15 Monfils was defeated by Sweden’s A hundred and fifth-ranked Mikael Ymer 6-0, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
That left solely fellow 34-year-old Richard Gasquet nonetheless standing and he has to defeat 13-time champion Rafael Nadal later Thursday to salvage nationwide pleasure.
If he fails — and he has a 0-16 file in opposition to the 20-time main winner — it will likely be the primary time for the reason that Open period started in 1968 that no French participant has reached the third spherical of the boys’s singles in Paris.
Ymer, 22, is the primary Swedish man to make the final 32 since two-time runner-up Robin Soderling in 2011.
He will face both 18th seed Jannik Sinner or Gianluca Mager for a last-16 spot.
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