Gael Monfils withdraws from Wimbledon despite return to training after surgery on foot injury

Gael Monfils has pulled out of Wimbledon despite recently returning to training after a foot injury. The Frenchman, who was set to be seeded No. 19 in the men's singles at the Grand Slam, has not played since undergoing surgery after losing to Novak Djokovic at the Madrid Open in early May.

Ad/> The injury forced him to miss his home major at Roland-Garros, and now the 35-year-old is focusing on making the warm-up events for the US Open — the final Grand Slam of the year which starts on August 29. Roland-GarrosRanking shake-up: Medvedev set for No. 1, Djokovic to fall, Nadal to No.

406/06/2022 AT 08:28 “I have started to train again this week and I have felt really good,” Monfils said in a Twitter thread. “I will now be able to increase gradually my training and spend more time on the court to get back in shape both from a physical and tennis point of view. “Due to my recent return to training and because of the physical demands of grass court tennis / best of five matches, my team and I have taken the decision not to play Wimbledon this year.

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