Fils – inspired by Monfils – overcomes last-minute fight back from Munar to make third round
Arthur Fils defeated Jaume Munar 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 2-6, 0-6, 6-4 on Thursday. He’ll play the winner of the match between Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 17 seed, and Australian Adam Walton in the next round
Julien Nouet / Tennis Majors
Frenchman Arthur Fils, the No 14 seed, reached the third round of Roland-Garros by defeating Spaniard Jaume Munar 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 2-6, 0-6, 6-4 at Roland-Garros in Paris on Thursday.
“I was in the five set and I was thinking of Gael,” the victor said.
“Gael had to turn around a lot of matches in five sets. So I thought, Arthur, this is yours. You have to do the same. Go for it.
“I don’t really have a lot of words. It’s thanks to you guys. Even if I was leading two sets to zero… I knew it was very physical. I entered the 2nd set tiebreak not feeling very well.
“But I told myself that it’s a 5 set match. Even if you lose the next two sets, there’s always a 5th set. I said that to my box. That I’ll focus on the 5th set and we’ll see what happens. It all went well in the end.”
Fils, ranked No 14, will play the winner of the match between Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 17 seed, and Australian Adam Walton next.
The 20-year-old Frenchman won against Chilean Nicolas Jarry (6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3) ahead of his victory.
In the previous round of the Roland-Garros 2025, Munar, ranked No 57, won against Argentinian Camilo Ugo Carabelli (6-4, 6-1, 7-5).
Paris (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 56.352.000, most recent results first):
- Gael Monfils vs. Jack Draper
- Jacob Fearnley vs. Ugo Humbert
- Corentin Moutet vs. Novak Djokovic
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Filip Misolic
- Cameron Norrie vs. Federico Agustin Gomez
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Ethan Quinn
- Joao Fonseca vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert: thursday
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Matteo Arnaldi: thursday
- Andrey Rublev vs. Adam Walton: thursday
- Jannik Sinner vs. Richard Gasquet: thursday
- Gabriel Diallo vs. Tallon Griekspoor: thursday
- Alexander Zverev (3) beat Jesper De Jong: 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
- Henrique Rocha (Q) beat Jakub Mensik (19): 2-6, 1-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
- Alexander Bublik beat Alex De Minaur (9): 2-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
- Jiri Lehecka beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (26): 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Holger Rune (10) beat Emilio Nava (WC): 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Frances Tiafoe (15) beat Pablo Carreno Busta: 6-4, 6-3, 6-1
- Ben Shelton vs. Hugo Gaston
- Sebastian Korda (23) beat Jenson Brooksby: 6-1, 6-2, 7-6 (2)
- Matteo Gigante (Q) beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (20): 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4
- Tommy Paul (12) beat Marton Fucsovics: 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
- Damir Dzumhur beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (31): 7-6 (4), 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
- Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Karen Khachanov (24) beat Sebastian Ofner: 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2
- Nuno Borges beat Casper Ruud (7): 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-0
- Quentin Halys beat Miomir Kecmanovic: 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 7-5
- Mariano Navone beat Reilly Opelka: 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-3
- Alexei Popyrin (25) beat Alejandro Tabilo: 7-5, 6-3, 6-4
- Daniel Altmaier beat Vit Kopriva: 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Hamad Medjedovic beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo (Q): 6-3, 6-4, 7-5
- Lorenzo Musetti (8) beat Daniel Elahi Galan (LL): 6-4, 6-0, 6-4
