Gaël Monfils announced this Tuesday evening on his Twitch channel that he was stopping his season. See you in 2026, for the final season of his career.
Gaël Monfils will therefore have played his last match of the season on September 18 in Chengdu, but he did not finish it. Opposed to Alexander Shevchenko, whose youth idol he was, the 39-year-old French veteran twisted his ankle in the second set and gave up a few games later. Since then, the world No. 65 had withdrawn from the ATP 500 in Beijing and the Masters 1000 in Shanghai. And this Tuesday, on his Twitch channel, Gaël Monfils announced that he was ending his season.
We will therefore not see him either in Basel or in Vienna next week, nor at the Rolex Paris Masters the following week, nor in Metz or Athens the first week of November, and even less in the Davis Cup in a little over a month, where he has not appeared since 2019 anyway. Undoubtedly not sufficiently recovered from his ankle injury, the player with 13 titles and 22 finals prefers not to take any risks in view of the 2026 season, which will be the last of his career.
See you at the Australian Open…
On October 1, Gaël Monfis announced that he would retire at the end of the Rolex Paris Masters 2026. He intends to play all his favorite tournaments next year, and there is no doubt that the public, French and foreign, will be there to pay him a wonderful tribute. His withdrawals at the end of 2025 will not cause him to fall in the rankings, because he only has the few points from his round of 16 in Vienna to defend between now and December. He will therefore appear without problem in the Australian Open table.
In the meantime, this package for the Rolex Paris Masters 2025 removes a small thorn in the side of its director Cédric Pioline, who will therefore not need to grant him one of the four wild cards, knowing that the heroes of Shanghai Valentin Vacherot and Arthur Rinderknech are candidates, as are Benjamin Bonzi, Adrian Mannarino, Arthur Cazaux, Terence Atmane or Valentin Royer.
