Tiafoe v Shelton US Open semi-final a legacy of the departing Gaël Monfils

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Veteran Frenchman bowed out in New York but the clash of two black players in the last four of the men’s singles is testament to his effectThe early days of this year’s US Open can be told in a series of farewells to competitors who plan to end their careers this year. The most moving of them all came in the form of Gaël Monfils’s grand departure inside Louis Armstrong Stadium against the wildly talented 20-year-old Learner Tien. Tien was competing in front of his home crowd, one of the American