Monfils In Dominant Form, Through To QF

Composed. Dominant. Efficient. Hardly a trio of words you'd use to describe Gael Monfils during his entire career, but words that do well to define the Frenchman's first four matches at the US Open.

The 32-year-old Monfils made his ninth Grand Slam quarter-final and first since the 2016 US Open on Monday, ending the best Slam run yet for Spain's Pablo Andujar 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in less than 90 minutes.

Monfils dominated every aspect of the fourth-round encounter, never enduring a real challenge from the 33-year-old Andujar, who entered the US Open with a 32-79 career record on hard courts and was bidding to become the oldest player in the Open Era to reach his first Grand Slam men’s singles quarter-final.

Monfils converted six of 10 break points and never faced a break point on his serve. The Frenchman hit 34 winners to only six from Andujar and won 81 per cent of his second-serve points, while winning 66 per cent of those from the Spaniard.

Monfils will face Italy's Matteo Berrettini for a place in the US Open semi-finals, which would be Monfils' third last-four showing at a Slam. Berrettini beat Russian Andrey Rublev 6-1, 6-4, 7-6(6).

The Frenchman made the semi-finals at the 2008 Roland Garros and the 2016 US Open.

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