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Fantastic flight: France's Gael Monfils takes off in search of the ball during the 2016 Australian Open.

Fantastic flight: France's Gael Monfils takes off in search of the ball during the 2016 Australian Open.

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That glorious day in Melbourne in 2016, when he ran across court as light and lean as a sunbeam, he took off on such a fantastic flight that Superman would have blushed and the miffed seagulls in the rafters would have just sighed in jealousy.

It was that damn Gael Monfils again.

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