{"id":3212,"date":"2023-10-22T23:38:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/gael-monfils-wins-nordic-open-for-1st-title-in-nearly-two-years\/22\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T23:38:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:38:48","slug":"gael-monfils-wins-nordic-open-for-1st-title-in-nearly-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/gael-monfils-wins-nordic-open-for-1st-title-in-nearly-two-years\/22\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Gael Monfils wins Nordic Open for 1st title in nearly two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>STOCKHOLM &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gael Monfils<\/a> won his 12th ATP Tour title &#8212; and his first in almost two years &#8212; by beating qualifier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pavel Kotov<\/a> in three sets in the Nordic Open final in Stockholm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Monfils rallied to triumph 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3 and claim a second title at the event, which he also won in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>At 37, the French player was the oldest finalist in the tournament&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1022%2Fr1241907_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1022%2Fr1241907_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1022%2Fr1241907_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1022%2Fr1241907_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Gael Monfils&#8217; title victory at the Nordic Open was his first tourney title win since January of last year.\u00a0<cite>EPA\/Anders Wiklund<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The No. 109-ranked Kotov came through two rounds of qualifying and four more in the tournament proper to reach the final, losing just one set along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Monfils&#8217; most recent title came in Adelaide in January 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38718114\/gael-monfils-wins-nordic-open-1st-title-nearly-two-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM &mdash; Gael Monfils won his 12th ATP Tour title &mdash; and his first in almost two years &mdash; by beating qualifier<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/gael-monfils-wins-nordic-open-for-1st-title-in-nearly-two-years\/22\/10\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[2159,2156,2157,2158,725,113,508,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}