Gael Monfils

After a period of absence of five months, Gael Monfils enter directly into the table in Dubai next week! The French is already in place.

No passage through the qualifiers'
Making his return to Dubai as a tournament, which offers a prize-money of the highest in the timetable, is excellent news for Gael Monfils. His health, tainted with a very small pain in the elbow, is a much better. Twice already, Parisien was forced to postpone her comeback to competition. A Melbourne first, in mid-January due to a left wrist injury, and more recently at the Open 13 in Marseille, due to an inflamed tendon rotulien left knee in early February. Over the last five months and its abandonment of the Challenger Szczecin in Poland, "" Sliderman did not resume competition, but as a dératé trains. "These last three weeks, he led hard, it was pushed far enough and the knee has responded well, so…" says his coach Thierry Champion in the columns of L'Equipe.

"Moments of discouragement"
So he did not hesitate a second before departing towards Dubai, the earthly paradise where Roger Federer. Thinking having to go through the qualifications, "Monf '" arrived Thursday in the Emirates but was a pleasant surprise to learn that a release of place in the big picture. Before starting the competition, the 51st player World will have time to train at a steady pace and its early arrival is only one evil for good. And it already seems to show a good shape according to Champion: "I can even say that I was pleasantly surprised by his level training. With the delay in land preparation, I do him not impose a short-term objectives. It has experienced moments of discouragement during that time but he never lost the desire to work. "