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Wawrinka & Tsonga Receive Monte-Carlo Wild Cards

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Wawrinka clinched the title in 2014

Former top five stars Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Stan Wawrinka have received wild cards into this year’s Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, the tournament announced Tuesday.

Wawrinka is a former champion at the ATP Masters 1000 event, where he lifted the trophy in 2014. The 36-year-old, who has not competed since March last year, will be making his 12th appearance in Monte-Carlo.

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Frenchman Tsonga will join the three-time Grand Slam champion at the clay-court tournament. The 18-time ATP Tour titlist is a two-time semi-finalist in Monte-Carlo, where he made the last four in 2013 and 2016.

So far this season, Tsonga has earned tour-level wins on home soil in Montpellier and Marseille, beating 23-year-old Kacper Zuk and countryman Gilles Simon, respectively.

The third Masters 1000 event of the season will run from Sunday, 10 April through Sunday, 17 April, with World No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas the defending champion.

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Stan Returns! Wawrinka To Play Challenger Event

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16-time ATP Tour titlist to return after year-long injury struggle
It’s been a long road for Stan Wawrinka, but the Swiss star is accelerating his preparations for his return to the ATP Tour.

The former World No. 3 has accepted a wild card for the AnyTech365 Andalucia Open, an event on the ATP Challenger Tour, being held in Marbella, Spain from 27 March until 3 April.

Wawrinka suffered a foot injury in early 2021 and has not played since his three-set defeat to Lloyd Harris at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in March last year. His return to the match court following surgery and extensive rehabilitation is a promising sign for the three-time Grand Slam champion.

The Challenger 125 event boasts a strong field, with Wawrinka one of three former Top 10 players playing at the clay-court event along with Fernando Verdasco and Lucas Pouille. Two players in the running for qualification for the 2022 Intesa Sanpaolo Next Gen ATP Finals, Holger Rune and Jiri Lehecka, are also competing, as well as World No. 89 Jaume Munar, who reached the final in both 2020 and 2021.

The tournament will mark Wawrinka’s first return to the Challenger Tour since August 2020 when he played back-to-back events in Prague, the first of which he clinched with a championship match victory over Aslan Karatsev.

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Jutr wraca. Jako 37-latek. Żadnego meczu nie rozegrał jako 36-latek.

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Z tego, co @Nando wrzucił w CH, mógł mocniej się wyżyłować Stan przed powrotem.

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Masa jest teraz tylko rzeźba.

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Masa jest teraz tylko rzeźba.

Po owocach go poznamy.

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Wawrinka & Thiem Both Lose On Challenger Return

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Former Top 3 stars make comeback after long-term injuries
Two of the ATP Tour’s most recognisable faces returned to the match court on Tuesday after extended breaks due to injury.

Stan Wawrinka and Dominic Thiem both suffered losses at the AnyTech365 Andalucia Open, but for Wawrinka simply competing again represented a victory at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Marbella, Spain.

“I think physically it was good, it was really positive,” said the Swiss after his 6-2, 6-4 first-round loss to World No. 131 Elias Ymer at the outdoor clay event. “I was super happy to be back playing a tournament, to get the emotion, to get the stress of a match again.”

Wawrinka had not played since the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha in March 2021 due to a foot injury. After an extensive rehabilitation process, the 37-year-old was happy to finally make the move to the match court.

“I was focused on trying to do my best with the level I have right now, and I knew it would be difficult, but in general I think it’s only a positive week for me,” he said. “I’ve been practising well and I’m going to keep practising and keep building for the next few weeks.”

Wawrinka’s next tournament will be the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters in mid-April, where he lifted the trophy in 2014, as he gears up for a Grand Slam comeback at Roland Garros. Despite having this schedule in place, the Swiss is putting no pressure on himself in terms of what he can achieve in his first months back on Tour.

“There is a short-term goal, and a long-term goal,” he said. “It’s tough to say about timing. There is a lot of time until the French Open, so for sure I will be a completely different player, physically and tennis-wise.

“I’m not worried at all. I need to focus on the moment, to focus on what I’m doing today to get to the level I want to be [at]."


For 2020 US Open champion Thiem it has been nine months out with an injury to his right wrist. The Austrian last played on the grass at the Mallorca Championships in June and on Tuesday was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by World No. 228 Pedro Cachin.

The 28-year-old acknowledged it had been a difficult road back when he announced his participation at the Marbella event via an Instagram post on 25 March. "It's been a very, very tough period for me and to go back to competition is what I have been waiting for so long and as you know I had a lot of setbacks,” wrote Thiem. “I know this will be a slow process of getting back to the top level, but I am ready to work hard and start humble."

Thiem’s return coincides with the start of the clay-court season, giving him the opportunity to ease back in on a surface he has always enjoyed. The Austrian has won 10 of his 17 ATP Tour titles on the red dirt and he reached the championship match at Roland Garros in 2018 and 2019.

Wawrinka and Thiem’s appearance in Marbella marks the first time that two former Top 3 players have competed at the same Challenger Tour event. Former Top 50 stars Philipp Kohlschreiber, Pablo Andujar and Jiri Vesely have all advanced to the second round in Spain, as has 2020 and 2021 finalist Jaume Munar.

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Djokovic & Wawrinka Entertain Fans In Casino Square Match

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Djokovic and Wawrinka also hit together on Thursday
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic will be aiming to capture his third Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters title this week when he returns to the Tour in Monaco.

However, before the serious business starts on Sunday, the top seed joined former World No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in the Casino Square, where the pair competed in an entertaining mini-match in front of an excitable crowd.

Djokovic and Wawrinka hit trick shots, posed for photos and chatted with each other as they delighted the fans in Monte-Carlo with their array of skills.

<a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/stan ... view'>Stan Wawrinka</a>/<a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nova ... iew'>Novak Djokovic</a>
Photo Credit: Stephane Danna/Monte-Carlo

The singles stars arrived at the Monte-Carlo Country Club earlier this week and trained together on Thursday on Court Rainier III ahead of the third ATP Masters 1000 tournament of the season.

Djokovic lifted the trophy on the clay in Monte-Carlo in 2013 and 2015 and is competing in just his second event of the season here after reaching the quarter-finals in Dubai in February.

Meanwhile, Switzerland’s Wawrinka arrives at the clay-court tournament having not played at a tour-level event since last March due to injury. The former World No. 3 triumphed in Monte-Carlo in 2014 and accepted a wild card into the draw.

Djokovic will face Alejandro Davidovich Fokina or Marcos Giron in his first match and could meet #NextGenATP Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz in a blockbuster quarter-final clash. Wawrinka is in the bottom quarter of the draw and will open against Alexander Bublik.

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