Felix Auger-Aliassime Engages In War Of Words Over Gael Monfils' Mid-Match Behaviour At Laver Cup 😮 

He’s 70, it comes with age. Been there done that! Besides much of it was Felix and Gael speaking in French.

Johny Mac doesn't know French luckily 😂😂

Bro is like Kreese from Cobra Kai

The exchange was mostly in French. McEnroe didn't understand a word 🙂

​@@twittertwicehe's 65

😂😂😂😂

My thots exactly…goddam Johnny Mac must b thinking how do I say “are you serious” in francais

Yep lol. Sometimes all you can do is laugh. I love how both sides defused it by telling each player to focus and not look or talk to the other. They can hash it out in the locker room later.

FAA taking things a bit too serious. Gael always plays to the crowd even during slams. He needs to lighten up a bit. @@sportsview247

Right ; Shelton & Frances 😊

Francis is always smiling. This guy is probably the life of any party he goes to. Seems like a super nice guy.

Tennis needs personalities like Shelton

Agreed but at the same time Gael should know this is still a competition and teams wanna win...I can't imagine he's never seen the Laver Cup before...

@@FiggyStardustOr seen the matches preceding his.

I disagree. I do not think Gael is as sophisticated as people assume. I think he misunderstood, that while Laver is relaxed, meaning Team members can be supportive, it does not mean when on court you do not have to comport yourself in a serious manner. As Felix told him, this is NOT an exhibtion match. Why would who talk to Felix tell him different than they told every other participant. This is about what Gael heard, not what was said?.

Ok, so if understand correctly, was it that Monfils gave the impression he wasn't trying hard, or just clowning all around?? I did see Monfils try one of those trick serves, which I thought was kind of odd. But I didn't see the match, it was something he did while I happened to surf the channel. But I wouldn't be surprised, Monfils problem is that he often doesn't take matches seriously enough for him to care much about its outcome. But still, it's like he should know that even though it's not a ATP tournament, one is still expected to treat it as a competition.

Clownfils is an exhibitionist. Why would he not treat the Laver Cup like it was an exhibition?

well the whole team combine got 0 gs title, John got 7

John wants more of this at the top level, gives tennis excitement

This proves that back in his prime McEnroe was ready for all the smoke

He has no idea what they're saying

​@jc-vu4gn - 7 is good. But nowhere near the greats like: Novak, Nadal, and Federer. Those are the G.O.A.T.S.

Early days

It isnt rivalry. Monfils did not understand that he couldnt do his silly crap at Laver Cup. He misunderstood the words fun and relaxed to mean full on exhibition behavior and it did not.

Monfils: Nobody told me this is a serious competition to be lost or won in three days? you believe that?

In 2023 it seems he can't though ;)

Tiafoe ain't far behind.

Foe can play.

@@dmdasoriginal2714 When Tiafoe stays focused which he was against Hurkacz.

@@dmdasoriginal2714 I doubt Tiafoe will touch any of Monfils numbers so let’s not act like Monfils “couldn’t play”. (11 titles, career high ranking 6, 534 ATP wins)

Perhaps that's why Monfils has never won any majors and I'm not sure ever won a 1000 level either. I love his athleticism, but never had the focus...he just wanted to entertain... what do you guys think?

😂😂

Such a grown up response like going and sitting in the audience.🥴

It's not supposed to be an exhibition, you are expected to treat it as a competition. I don't even follow the laver cup, but even I know that much😂 so Monfils maybe didn't get the meaning in the translation. Next time they need to also state the purpose in French ha ha

@@creativestudio101 No ATP points, players invited not on their results (FAA would not be there otherwise), nah this is definitely an exhibition. Gaël just comes from UTS, he thought the whole US North American tour ends up by a big exhibition as the north American business knows how to do ;)

You could tell the chair umpire was pretty loose until FAA got serious and asked him what rules are we playing under.

@@iansmirna5183 hmmm... I could be wrong, but from all the marketing and from Federer's own remarks, I understood it was supposed to be a serious competitive affair, regardless it not being a standard ATP event

@@creativestudio101 As you said, marketing wise they don't want to sell it as an exhibition. In the facts, how do you call a tournament where people enter on invitation against big cash and despite disastrous results for some of them, where no ATP points are allowed and where top ranked players prefer to not go?

Wrong here. Why has nobody taken same tact as Gael. Be cause Gael misinterpreted what was said. He misconstruted, relaxed and have fun. Ben Shelton was in it because Gael used his strong responses while playing to mean the same as Gael going to sit in the crowd. It doesn’t but Gael brought Ben into it, so Ben spoke up.

Shelton needs to grow up and stop the college mentality.

We certainly do, eh!

No, he knew. He was smiling bc Felix took their advice and said something to the ref…. all of that was in English!

@@twittertwice right but FAA didn't seem happy during the convos with monfils

Shelton? What did he do? Felix was involved with Monfils and mentioned playing games, not Shelton.

@@positivelastaction3957 listen towards the end, he's talking to FAA. You can tell FAA was feeling bad because he saw Monfils' reaction but Shelton is in his ear fueling him with presumptions about Monfils.

He may be a future great player but 'to cocky'.

@@joking2512 I did not catch that. Yeah, Shelton is pretty immature. He's talented so hopefully as he gets older, he'll wise up a bit.

I always thought it was an exhibition too!

Tell me who else on either team have you seen that acted like Gael? No one. They tell everyone they same thing. Gael misunderstood what was said! its obvious!

Shelton has become the new lightning rod for racist tennis fans. They hate that he's young, talented, charismatic, attractive, & black. They don't want him to be a star & see him as a threat to their white favs. Same ol' story, different decade.

Odd but this often happens when French try to translate behavior. Monfils tries to compare his behavior as same as Ben’s dialed in Gesture. Monfils really believes there is no dif in him sitting in crowd and Ben using Dialed in gesture o when he’s won his match. It’s a miscalculation on monfils part.

Were you defending Djokovic like this at his twenties when he had more rights to be cocky with a GS under his belt? 😂 double standards at its best

@@minguyen2589 Exactly. Preach!

I hate shelton

If it was a one off and done as a bit of humour I won't be too harsh on him but yea it does affect the rhythm of the game and give the impression he's not taking it seriously.

Felix took it too far… Gael was having fun and being himself…Felix was desperate for a win and just created drama for nothing… It’s not like Gael did so many times, was one off and no more than 20s

@@MrBruster78 as I said in another post if it's a one off then ok but I don't think he's giving the Laver Cup the respect it deserves. He was angry and slurred out it's an exhibition to his teammates. I'm not saying FAA was a saint either.

So here's my view on it. Felix maybe could have taken it in a more humorous light. Monfils should not have called Laver Cup an exhibition that's disrespectful.

@@MrBruster78 Absolutely right!

Don't be fooled by Monfils, he's a great entertainer but also plays massive head games.

Another dude that didn't watch the game and commenting

@@karlito_ln7091 Who, me?

FAA was on a losing streak and he wanted to win so much.

@@clementchan2439 Wouldn't you?

Thank you. Preach!

you want us to bring Djokovic, Alcaraz and Medvedev or even Sinner for all I care? y'all non Europeans are being too cocky lol.

@@redennah1467 If, If, If... doesn't exist.

@@dummythiccems Thats not if , if , if . Those are the 4 best players in the world and on hard courts , In fact 9 of the top 10 players in the world are from Europe . If you bring the best European players the team ,, world ,, would get smoked . Thats like saying Novak wasn't the big favorite and likely to win the last year's AO and USO because of some stupid mandate , look at this year what he did . He won both without much difficulty , saying if , if , if is stupid in that context . That would be the same if you banned Nadal at the FO . If you look all the way back from Wimbledon 2003 when Federer won his first slam , only 3 players outside of Europe won 3 slams in the last 20.5 years , 81 grand slams held ( 2020 Wimbledon was canceled due to Covid ) . Give the best European players a lot of $$$ to come here and team world will get demolished and you know it , you can pretend that isn't so by quoting Nadal's if , if , if but lets be honest here , team world would get obliterated .

Djokovic, Alcaraz, Sinner, Tsitsipas, Rune, Zverev and hell even Medvedev are missing on our team. You think you'd have a chance if they were there?

He asked the ref it was by the book or an exhibition. If the ref would have said it's an exhibition then he would have been fine with it. The ref says they are using ATP rules, but that's obviously BS, so why not make it clear what this is?

Bull. Show me the last four years where anyone playing went and sat in the crowd or made his opponent wait while he talked to the crowd? All anyone has to do is understand Roger put Laver together… Roger does not behave like Monfils and would never want any participant to act like that. You are trying to say Felix doesnt have a sense of humor. yet we saw it playing with Ben. Monfils is a good guy, but his idea of what was acceptable is skewed in this instance. Did you see Caspers face when he did that Monfils high jump to hit a ball. No one likes that in the middle of playing a game.

He's still a kid calm down dad.

Telling felix to stick to his business is instigating? To ignore him? To not look at him? Calm down clown

He needs to shut up and respect the veteran players.

He was actually giving Felix good advice to just ignore the stuff Gael was doing and focus on his game

he doesn't know french, if it was anybody else that don't know what FAA or monfils were saying, I'll tell him to just ignore him too. you guys need to give some of these young guns some air.. jesus. just sit back and watch the fireworks

A Tournament where you exhibit your skill with a winner and loser at the end of three days. Call it what you will. Have your s__t together on the court.

I couldn't really hear properly above the noise plus my French ' s gone down the drain.

Félix was saying that he wants to play seriously as Gaël was messing about and being fussy. That's basically it

Gael was telling Felix that the people that invited him to the tourney told him it would be fun and a show for the fans and Felix was like ok but I'm here to play a competition and win type of thing...

was very distorted anyways, it was hard to understand a good part of it

don't waste your time. it's not worth it

I agree. Young folks are so disrespectful. I think Sheldon rubbing of on others...unnessarily!

Yeah the big 3 did a lot of work to endorse the Laver Cup. In 2017 it was Federer and Nadal insisting that everyone take it seriously and all, and top players showed up for the opportunity to play on their team. Also Jack Sock and Nick Kyrgios’s impact cannot be understated; they took this competition extremely seriously and helped set the tone while dominating doubles matches. 2017-2019 was peak Laver Cup. Now with Federer retired, Nadal and Djokovic getting older and less likely to play this, people just have less of a reason to play. We probably won’t see Alcaraz any time soon unless Federer begs him to come. It’s after the US Open where every top player is exhausted. It’s a great format, but I think Federer needs to put in effort if he wants to keep the reputation alive. Call up guys like Alcaraz, Kyrgios, Medvedev, and the coaches will do the rest with keeping them serious and on-task. Make sure the culture doesn’t shift. Maybe have retired players show up; big 4 can be near the players or offer coaching, Sock could jump on for doubles.

"I worry about the future of the Laver cup" I don't worry at all cause I've never cared about team events in tennis. "It was basically a money making enterprise for Roger Federer" Right on point!.

Totally disagree. The format was not confused. Monfils was not a good ad on… he showboats and presumed once asked to participate that is why he was asked. These were first rate players. This has been a rough year for tennis players everbody has been injured. The line up will always depend on whos health and wants to play. Could care less if Roger is making money with Tennis. Black Players are not second rate… nor are players in top 20 players. Don’t know who Felix hasnt beaten at least once. These guys are all good players.

​​@@ghostofgerulaitisThe players that count aren't there. None of top 5. Compare to last year.

@@ghostofgerulaitis Don't forget Agassi and Sampras are also retired, so they can't do it either lol. Also, it's nothing to do with having already done it. The first 3 spots are supposed to be filled by the highest ranked players in the world, quote "Three of the six players qualify based on their ATP singles ranking". That would be Djokovic, Alcaraz, Medvedev.

@@ghostofgerulaitis Davis Cup used to be bigger, but Piqué’s new format has made it nowhere near as popular.

@@ghostofgerulaitis No top 5 playing, and not a single player who has won a grand slam singles title. It's an exhibition event, with fake captains (Borg and McEnroe don't actually do anything), but if you enjoy it then good luck to you. Nothing more for me to say.

Davis Cup is used to qualify for the Olympics. Without those added stakes, they're the same type of event fostering team-based international tennis without the pressure of ranking points.

Oh comeon. Judge his words, not age.

@@rohitbalakrishnan5004 Well said..!! Ben was a cool dude.

Lol u guys find anything to hate on Shelton for

He’s being a good teammate. You don’t have to older than someone to give advice. Have you never learned anything from someone younger than?

Shelton is from the generation of knowing everything without have done much really BUT .....

lmao

Felix speaks French because French is his first language. He is French Canadian. His Dad hails from an African country whose first language is French, and Mom is French Canadian. Canada has 2 official languages French and English.

how do you think of saying this 😂

Thank you!

Felix who never says anything gets too distracted? Felix who was in the top 10 for however long. The diference between #6 and number #1 is not one annoyance a year as comoared ejth medvedev, rublev or tsitsipas who complain far more. This comment makes zero sense.

What do you mean? He was having fun until FAA made it confrontational.

@@joking2512 they were both confrontational. He went on to call the Laver Cup an exhibition which means he's not taking it seriously. Anyway it's over now let's just hope there's never a repeat of that... it could have got much uglier.

@@sportsview247 it is an exhibition...

@@sportsview247 calling it an exhibition wasn't an attack. It's an assumption based on what they told Monfils. If you think that's being confrontational, you're looking for drama.

@@joking2512 Drama? You sound like the drama queen here. Just cool down ok. I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about how he kept going over to FAA. The exhibition slur was only said to his team and is the real reason he sat between points. Anyway you seem to be misinterpreting what I say.... I'm being objective.

I suspect they were briefed the same way. There have been four years of Laver Cup ro watch. The difference is how Some French can misconstue the use of “have fun” and” relaxed atmosphere”. Why would anyone change the way they explain the competition to one participant? Nobody else has donw what Monfils did.They are there for three days to win an important competition. Why invite someone to be silly during the competition?

@@twittertwice very important competition 👀👀? How many ATP points winners get from this competition? NONE😅

I agree. The previous players of Laver have never thought of it as an exhibition.

LOL....

Well that was the nicest way to be nasty then lol.

Gael is a man/child and proved it many times. He is also a nice guy and because of that, I believe his behavior was an honest mistake.

In hindsight I agree. And Whatta ya know he's playing again today in Doubles!! And who is on the other Doubles team? None other than Felix Auger-Aliassime. 😅 this should be FUN.

No it just means that he doesn't have time for this kind of bs argument. Being a parent helps you prioritize mate ;)

He was basically saying if I knew this was gonna be drama, I could have stayed home with my family.

So having a kid automatically all of a sudden makes you a more sensible, logical person?? Like Serena saying... "I'm a mother now!" So all of a sudden she's aware and will fight for rights of women... as if any other childless person simply would not be able to comprehend the same concept... funny as shit 😂😂😂

monfils has been always a clown.

Yep, he didn't have to play. I think the Europe team were a bit speechless and embarrassed.

staged.

yeesh, what a horrible mindset. Obviously they werent on the same page but imo tennis is most fun when both players are taking it seriously

That kind of thinking is what started that nonsense. Monfils wasn't taking it serious at all. Rod Laver & Roger Federer were siting there. At least play well for them. Then Monfils lost the match and put Europe behind 0-3.

The players always taken it seriously, while having fun of course. This clowning was too much.

@@lordgothajix527 All the Team Europe fans are clowns crying foul because they lost Day 1 in a clean sweep. Pssh.

Sorry I meant clowning from Monfils@@got2bjosh

Maybe Shelton is setting the NEW tennis etiquette! the "kid" honestly is spoil and TOXIC! ...