Who Won The Monte Carlo Tennis Tournament?

Rafael Nadal won the Monte Carlo Tennis Tournament for the 10th time.

Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal has won the Monte Carlo Tennis Tournament for the 12th time. He has now equaled Roger Federer’s record for the most number of times winning a single tennis tournament. Nadal has been in great form this season and he will be looking to continue his winning streak in the upcoming French Open.

Background

Rafael Nadal was born on June 3, 1986, in Manacor, Mallorca, Spain. The son of a businessman and a housewife, Nadal began playing tennis at age 4 with his uncle, who was a professional tennis player. Nadal’s first tennis coach was his uncle Toni Nadal. Under Toni’s guidance, Nadal developed his trademark style of play: a mixture of brute force and touch that allowed him to race to the net behind his suffocating topspin groundstrokes to finish points quickly.

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Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is widely regarded as the greatest clay-court player in history and as one of the greatest players of all time. Nadal has won 19 Grand Slam singles titles, the second most in history for a male player, as well as 35 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles, 21 ATP Tour 500 tournaments, and an Olympic gold medal. In major finals, Nadal has a record of 18–10. He was also a member of the winning Spain Davis Cup team in 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. In 2010, he became the seventh player in history and youngest of four in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam at age 24

Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic has won the Monte Carlo Tennis Tournament. This is his third title in Monte Carlo and he has now won a total of 30 Masters 1000 titles. He is now just four titles behind Rafael Nadal’s record of 34 Masters 1000 titles.

Background

Novak Djokovic was born on May 22, 1987, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Djokovic comes from a sporting family—his father and uncles were all professional soccer players, and his mother was a competitive swimmer. When he was just four years old, Djokovic picked up a tennis racket for the first time. It didn’t take long before he developed into a gifted player.

He burst onto the international tennis scene in 2006 by reaching the third round of the Australian Open. A year later, Djokovic won his first Grand Slam title at the 2007 U.S. Open—becoming the youngest man since 1990 to win a major tennis championship. The following year, Djokovic capture his first Wimbledon crown and reached the No. 1 ranking in the world for the first time. He would finish 2009 with a career-best 63-12 record and six tournament victories.

Djokovic has since added more Grand Slam titles to his résumé, winning Wimbledon again in 2011 and 2014 and taking home victories at the Australian Open in 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016. He also became an Olympic gold medalist in doubles (with countryman Nenad Zimonjić) at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

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Novak Djokovic is a Serbian tennis player who has been ranked No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the past five years. He has won twelve Grand Slam singles titles, the most of any male player in the Open Era. He has also won four ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments, six ATP World Tour 500 tournaments, and has reached the finals of all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments he has played.

Roger Federer

It was a hard-fought battle, but in the end Roger Federer came out on top to win the Monte Carlo Tennis Tournament. This is his eighth title at this tournament, which is a record. Let’s take a look at how he did it.

Background

Roger Federer (born August 8, 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 4 in men’s singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has won 19 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in history for a male tennis player. His record of 10 consecutive majors is the longest by any male player, and he is the only man to have reached the finals of all four grand slam tournaments in a row. He has also won an all-time record of 30 men’s doubles titles.

Statistics

Roger Federer has a remarkable record at the Monte Carlo Tennis tournament, having won the title a total of eight times. He has also reached the final on nine occasions, meaning he has been victorious in over 80% of the finals he has contested at this event. In fact, he has only failed to make it to the final four times in his entire career.

Overall, Federer has won 87% of his singles matches at Monte Carlo and 79% of his doubles matches. He also holds the record for the most consecutive wins at this tournament, having won 24 matches in a row between 2005 and 2008.

Andy Murray

Andy Murray won the Monte Carlo Tennis Tournament by defeating Stan Wawrinka in the final. This was Murray’s first title of the year and he is now ranked No. 2 in the world.

Background

Andy Murray OBE is a British professional tennis player from Scotland, ranked No. 27 in men’s singles as of 2 April 2018. Murray represents Great Britain in his sporting activities and is a three-time Grand Slam tournament winner, two-time Olympic champion, Davis Cup champion, winner of the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals, and former world No. 1.

Born in Glasgow, Murray played tennis from a young age and competed on the professional circuit since he was 18 years old. He first broke into the world top 50 at the 2007 US Open, reaching the third round as a qualifier where he lost to Argentine Guillermo Cañas in five sets. In May 2009 he reached his first Masters Series final at the Madrid Open where he lost to Rafael Nadal in straight sets.

In early 2016, Murray achieved his milestone of $50 million in career prize money by winning his first title of 2016 at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open. Murray won his second consecutive Wimbledon men’s singles title in 2016, earning £2 million ($2.8 million).

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Andy Murray is a British tennis player who has been ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He is a two-time Grand Slam singles champion, Olympic gold medalist, Davis Cup champion, and recipient of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

Born in Scotland to a English mother and Scottish father, Murray represents Great Britain in his sporting events. He has won thirty-four ATP Tour titles, including three Grand Slam tournaments: Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016, and the US Open in 2012.

Andy Murray’s ATP Singles Titles:
-2016 Barcelona Open (Cruz Campo Cup)
-2016 Qatar ExxonMobil Open
-2016 Aegon Championships
-2016 Wimbledon Championships
-2016 Shenzhen Open
-2017 Dubai Tennis Championships

Other Players

Rafael Nadal is the most successful player in the history of the Monte Carlo tennis tournament, having won the title eight times. But he isn’t the only player to have enjoyed success in the event. Here are some of the other players who have triumphed in Monaco.

Background

The Monte-Carlo Tennis Open (also known as the Monte-Carlo Masters) is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, a commune that borders on Monaco. The tournament is played on clay courts at the Monte Carlo Country Club. It is one of the most prestigious tournaments on the ATP Tour after Wimbledon and the French Open.

The event was first held in 1897 and was won by Britain’s Harold Mahony. It became an “international” event in 1902 when French player Paul François decided to compete despite only members of the French Lawn Tennis Club being allowed to enter. In 1911, American player May Sutton Bundy became the first female player to take part in the tournament. In268 entries took part in a single elimination competition with Spaniard Nicola Pietrangeli emerging victorious.

Since 1974, the tournament has been part of the ATP Masters Series, with Rafael Nadal winning a record eight times between 2005 and 2012.

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Djokovic became the first player in the Open Era to win all nine Masters 1000 clay court tournaments after defeating Nadal in the 2019 Madrid Open final. He is also one of only three active players to have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments, and is the only player to have held all four Grand Slam singles titles at the same time since Rod Laver in 1969.