Emotional Arneodo/Guinard earn historic Monte-Carlo title

Romain Arneodo and Manuel Guinard completed a dream run at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters on Sunday with ATP Masters 1000 glory.

The wild cards saved two championship points to defeat seventh seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool 1-6, 7-6(8), 10-8 in a dramatic final in front of a lively crowd on Court Rainier III. It was only the winning team’s second tour-level event together.

“It gave me a lot of confidence to actually play this tournament,” said Guinard, who had never played an ATP Masters 1000 tournament before this week. “We actually played only one tournament on clay this year, in Marrakech, and we arrived here with three matches. We knew what we [had] to work on [in] training and we did it pretty good this week. I’m really, really happy for [Romain]. Really happy for Monaco, also. I’m speechless now.”

Arneodo became the first Monegasque champion in Rolex Monte-Carlo tournament history. Two years ago, he reached the championship match in The Principality with Sam Weissborn, failing to convert two match points.

The Monegasque ensured he would not suffer heartbreak again on Sunday. The champions found their best level in the closing stages to triumph in 88 minutes.  

“I don’t know what happened. I’m just so emotional now, it’s crazy. It’s a dream,” Arneodo said. “I couldn’t believe it was true in ’23, we reached the final. We had two match points, I still dream about that for the last two years. I was so disappointed the last two years to not win this tournament.

“And now, to achieve this tournament, for me, [what I have done in] tennis is enough. Now [that] I won the tournament, my tennis career, I reached my dream goal.”

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Arneodo and Guinard were well supported throughout the final, with even those in the president’s box frequently on their feet throughout the encounter. Arneodo, 32, is the second Monegasque ATP Masters 1000 champion in history, joining Hugo Nys, who won in Rome in 2023. Guinard, 29, now holds a 1-2 record in tour-level finals.  

Cash and Glasspool were trying to win their first Masters 1000 title together, having also lost in the Miami final last month to Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic. The Britons leave Monte-Carlo third in the PIF Live ATP Doubles Team Rankings.