Tennis: Monfils doubles up participating in Washington
Earth numeral seven Gael Monfils won two matches by the Legg Mason Classic Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Washington match.Monfils, who is the top seed on behalf of the event, was unable to engage in recreation on Wednesday due to precipitation, but the Frenchman seemed unaffected since he defeated Ryan Sweeting and Dimitry Tursonov voguish the next and third rounds correspondingly.The 24-year-old beat American Sweeting 6-3 7-6 7-3 hip 85 minutes to stage set up his clash with the Russian 14th seed Tursonov on the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis fix.The Parisian afterward defeated the 28-year-old Tursonov 6-2 7-6 11-9 courtesy of one more second-set tie-break and desire in a jiffy look toward Serbias Janko Tipsarevic within the very last eight.