Monfils Turns 40, Turns Back the Clock at the US Open

The Frenchman becomes the oldest man to win a match at Flushing Meadows since Jimmy Connors in 1992 — on his own birthday, no less.

Monfils became the oldest man to win a US Open match since Jimmy Connors, another player known for putting on a show in New York, beat Jaime Oncins on his own 40th birthday back on September 2, 1992. It's a fitting bit of symmetry — two showmen, three decades apart, both finding a way to turn back the clock on the biggest stage.