Roland Garros 2013 RG13

Does Gael Monfils do any kind of win other than extraordinary? His exhilarating second-round encounter with Ernests Gulbis would surely have belonged to the Latvian if he had won either the second or the third sets; but Monfils somehow snatched the second and insisted upon the third. He needed seven set points to secure the latter, and was sufficiently chilled to spend the changeover filming the crowd on his mobile phone. Eventually the son of Paris emerged a thrilled and thrilling winner 6-7(5), 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-2 in three hours and 15 minutes, having demonstrated once and for all how to put the wild into wildcard.