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Gaël Monfils
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French tennis player (born 1986)
Key facts
- Full name
- Gaël Sébastien Monfils
- Country sports
- France
- Residence
- Geneva , Switzerland
- Born
- ( 1986-09-01 ) 1 September 1986 (age 39) , Paris , France
- Height
- 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
- Plays
- Right handed (two-handed backhand)
- Coach
- Mikael Tillström (2015–2020, 2023–2026), Previous coaches Thierry Champion (2004–2006) Tarik Benhabiles (2007–2008) Roger Rasheed (2008–2011) Patrick Chamagne (2011–2013) Jan de Witt (2015) Liam Smith (2019–2020) Richard Ruckelshausen (2021–2023) Günter Bresnik (2021–2023)
- Prize money
- US$ 24,906,000 24th all-time in earnings
- Career record
- 586–357
- Highest ranking
- No. 6 (7 November 2016)
- Current ranking
- No. 222 (5 May 2026)
- Australian open
- QF ( 2016 , 2022 )
- French open
- SF ( 2008 )
- Wimbledon
- 4R ( 2018 )
- Us open
- SF ( 2016 )
- Tour finals
- RR ( 2016 )
- Olympic games
- QF ( 2008 , 2016 )
- Spouse
- Elina Svitolina ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2021 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- ATP Mens
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- France
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sébastien
- Family name
- Monfils
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Spouse
- Elina Svitolina
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's doubles
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 93
- Image
- Monfils RG19 (13) (48199149362).jpg
- Height
- 193
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Trélex
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- Commons category
- Gaël Monfils
- date of birth
- 1986-09-01
- doubles record
- 29–86
- name in native language
- Gaël Monfils
- prize money
- 24497757
- ranking
- 6
- start of work period
- 2004-00-00
- handedness
- right-handedness
- birth name
- Gaël Sébastien Monfils
- social media followers
- 786515
- singles record
- 583–350
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Encyclopedic overview
Gaël Sébastien Monfils ( French pronunciation: [ɡaɛl mɔ̃fis]; born 1 September 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 6 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in November 2016. Monfils has won 13 ATP Tour singles titles, out of 35 finals contested. His best results at the Majors are two semifinals, at the 2008 French Open and 2016 US Open.
Monfils was named the ATP Newcomer of the Year in 2005. He reached at least one ATP Tour singles final every year for 19 consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2023, and is one of five players in the Open Era to do so for 19 or more seasons. He is also eighth among active players with over 550 career match wins. In 2025, Monfils became the oldest ATP Tour champion since the Tour's establishment in 1990.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaël Monfils” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.