Long gone! In the just-concluded Marrakech race, Belgian brother Goffin, in this competition, which is not low in the quality of the participating players, defeated the dark horse Molken to win the first championship of the year.
How hard is this championship? After all, today's Goffin is far from his peak.
Four years ago, Goffin was still able to beat Federer, who was rejuvenated for the second spring, and enter the final venue of the year-end finals! Three years ago at the Cincinnati Masters, he was still a good player to reach the final, and he was the background emperor of Medvedev's first Masters champion.
At the moment, he has struggled to win in many recent competitions, and what used to be no. 7 in the world has now fallen to just outside the 70th place in the world rankings. Fortunately, with the help of this championship, he stopped the recent decline and did not develop in the direction of the top 100.
Of the six titles won so far, while as many as five have come from 250 tournaments and only one 500 has not hindered Goffin's unique position among Chinese fans.
Because his demeanor resembles the mainland king superstar Andy Lau, he is called "Andy Lau of Belgium" by the majority of fans. But unlike Liu Tianwang's model worker qualities, Goffin's physical fitness in recent years has been worrying.
In October of the previous year, he was once infected with new crown pneumonia, and his career seemed to be in jeopardy. After all, he was born in 90 years old, he is already 32 years old, and in the case of the repeated impact of the post-95s and even the post-00s, Goffin seems to have been unable to keep up with the pace of the times.
Last February, Goffin beat Espanyol Agut in the final of the Montpellier tournament, his last title before winning Marrakech.
From the fifth crown to the sixth crown, there was a gap of more than a year, and more importantly, Goffin was not defeated by injuries in these years. He is always actively training and preparing for his comeback.
It was another title on clay in goffin's eight years, when he beat fledgling Thiem to win an Austrian title in 2014.
In the course of the Marrakech race, he also reached a milestone record, achieving a career 300 wins.
In the past, Goffin's best result at a Grand Slam was only in the quarterfinals. This is obviously a bit inconsistent with his status as the top ten in the world, I don't know if he is already old, will there be a breakthrough in this field in the future?
After the marrakech victory, Goffin's real-time ranking has returned to the top fifty, and he will rush to monte carlo, the next place to compete! (Source: Tennis House Author: Luo ChengQiye)