The French tennis participant of 23 years-antique, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga gained the third ATP identify of his career in the SA Tennis Open at Johannesburg, South Africa, in an hour and forty-eight mins without dropping a hard and fast. Tsonga beat his countryman Jeremy Chardy in a tremendous way 6-four, 7-6(7-five). Both players performed satisfactorily; however, the experience of Tsonga in critical moments gave him an edge to win the identity. Tsonga gained a total of $ seventy-nine .000, and his counterpart Chardy was given the second one vicinity with $ forty-one 500. This ATP Tour final became the primary one for the 21-years-vintage and No.61 of Jeremy Chardy’s world.
During the sport, Tsonga had superb service, making sixteen aces, while Chardy did his task and converted eleven authorities. Tsonga benefited from Chardy’s errors, which ceased to feed him the units and the sport. In the first set, each player had been protecting their serves efficaciously till Tsonga managed to interrupt Chardy’s remaining serve to win the group.
Things ran nearly identical within the second set, with superb serves and both Frenchmen defending them. However, this time, none of them ought to ruin, and that led to a tie-break in which both players misplaced their first service, and the sport became a robust war. However, with his enjoys and sensible sport, Tsonga pressured Chardy to provide mistakes to win the tie-ruin 7-five, prevailing in the set and the championship.
Before coming to his first ATP final, Jeremy Chardy defeated the World No in the semi-finals. Five and 2nd seeded for the tournament Spaniard David Ferrer was a marvel to Ferrer’s fans. Tsonga beat the Portuguese Frederico Gil 6-three, 6-four in the semi-finals for his component.
Tsonga expressed that he was genuinely excited about this win and hoped to keep improving for the Destiny tournaments. According to him, getting into finals previously has given him extra self-belief, and his sport is developing with time and revel in.
“I did a top-notch activity this week and am playing this moment. I am thrilled to have succeeded. I performed first-rate in shape. I served very well, and I suppose his inexperience turned obvious at 5-4 in the first set while he overlooked some easy pictures. But now he has some enjoyment, and I desire he will do well subsequent time,” expressed Tsonga.
This is Tsonga’s 1/3 ATP World Tour title and his first one this season, 2009. His first two titles were acquired last year, first on the ATP World Tour in Bangkok, defeating Novak Djokovic, and then at the ATP Masters Series in Paris; he beat David Nalbandian. Moreover, it needs to be noted that the beginning of the ATP 2009 marketing campaign has been splendid for Tsonga because he has reached three quarterfinals at Brisbane, Sydney, and the Australian Open, except including this ATP identify. In this accurate moment, we desire high-quality Tsonga. We hope to peer him developing his tennis and showing all his excellent expertise at the following tournaments.
