Magic Monf: Gael Monfils becomes only eighth player to achieve incredible milestone at Miami Open

Gael Monfils defeated Jordan Thompson in the third round of the Miami Open and reached a big career milestone with his 550th victory. The 37-year-old Frenchman defeated the 33rd seed 6-7, 6-1, 6-2 and became the eighth active tennis player to reach that number of wins.

Since the beginning of the Open Era, 42 players have achieved 550 victories, and Monfils is only the second Frenchman to do so. The former world No. 6 has secured 130 of his victories in Masters 1000 tournaments and another 121 in Grand Slam tournaments since the start of his professional career in 2004.

The Frenchman has been putting on good performances in recent weeks in the Sunshine Double. First, at Indian Wells, he reached the round of 16 and defeated Max Purcell, Hubert Hurkacz (8th seed), and Cameron Norrie (28th seed), but lost to world No. 9 Casper Ruud.

This week at the Miami Open, he again had consecutive victories, against Dusan Lajovic and Jordan Thompson, but now the challenge will be greater as he faces the world No. 2 and first seed Carlos Alcaraz. So far, they have only faced each other once in the 2022 Indian Wells with a victory for the Spanish player.

1,095: Novak Djokovic

1,070: Rafael Nadal

738: Andy Murray [incl. 2nd Rd win in Miami]

603: Richard Gasquet

582: Marin Cilic

569: Stan Wawrinka

559: Fernando Verdasco

550: Gael Monfils [incl. 2nd Rd win in Miami]