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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Petsonga (born April 17, 1985) is a professional tennis player. A French citizen, born in Le Mans, he has a French mother and Congolese father, Didier Tsonga. His career high ranking was #38, achieved on January 7, 2008. He had a successful junior career, winning the U.S. Open Juniors title in 2003 by defeating Marcos Baghdatis in the final, and also reached the semi-final stage of the other three Grand Slam events. At the 2007 Australian Open, Tsonga took the first set off Andy Roddick in a twenty points to eighteen tiebreak. Tsonga has victories over former number one players Carlos Moyà and Lleyton Hewitt, and he defeated number 14 seed Mikhail Youzhny, number 9 seed Andy Murray, number 8 seed Richard Gasquet, and number 2 seed Rafael Nadal at the 2008 Australian Open.

 

TSONGA QUOTES -


"I will go into the Australian Open as one of the possible winners. I am sure of that,"
 

"I am very ambitious for next year and Melbourne will be crucial to what follows. If I can get a good result, I will be well-placed to climb even higher."
 

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* Players on the ATP circuit have nicknamed him the Muhammad Ali of Tennis due to his striking resemblance to Muhammad Ali, who is one of his heroes.

* During childhood, he and Gaël Monfils spent hours practicing trying to get a serve like Andy Roddick's.

 Titles
Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (0)
Challengers (8)
Futures (6)

Singles (8)
 

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. June 14, 2004 Flag of SpainLanzarote Hard Flag of SpainDaniel Munoz De La Nava 7-5 6-3
2. July 5, 2004 Flag of the United KingdomNottingham Grass Flag of the United KingdomAlex Bogdanovic 6-3 6-4
3. July 26, 2004 Flag of RussiaTogliatti Hard Flag of SlovakiaLadislav Svarc 6-3 7-6
4. March 28, 2005 Flag of MexicoLeón Hard Flag of the United StatesGlenn Weiner 7-5 7-5
5. October 10, 2005 Flag of FranceSaint-Dizier Hard Indoors Flag of GermanyTorsten Popp 6-0 7-6(8)
6. March 13, 2006 Flag of FranceLille Hard Indoors Flag of FranceSebastien de Chaunac 7-5 7-5
7. March 27, 2006 Flag of the United KingdomBath Hard Indoors Flag of SwedenMichael Ryderstedt 6-3 6-2
8. April 3, 2006 Flag of the United KingdomBath Hard Indoors Flag of SwedenFilip Prpic 6-3 6-1
9. October 9, 2006 Flag of FranceRennes Hard Indoors Flag of GermanyTobias Summerer 1-6 7-5 7-5
10. March 19, 2007 Flag of FrancePoitiers Hard Flag of LatviaAndis Juska 6-1 7-5
11. April 2, 2007 Flag of the United StatesTallahassee Hard Flag of South AfricaRik De Voest 6-1 6-4
12. April 9, 2007 Flag of MexicoMexico City Hard Flag of MexicoBruno Echagaray 6-4 2-6 6-1
13. April 30, 2007 Flag of SpainLanzarote Hard Flag of AustraliaPaul Baccanello 6-2 6-2
14. June 4, 2007 Flag of the United KingdomSurbiton Grass Flag of CroatiaIvo Karlović 6-3 7-6

Doubles (2)
No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponent in the final Score
1. 29 October 2007 Lyon, France Carpet Flag of France Sébastien Grosjean Flag of Poland Łukasz Kubot
Flag of Croatia Lovro Zovko 6-4, 6-3
2. 13 January 2008 Sydney, Australia Hard Flag of France Richard Gasquet Flag of the United States Bob Bryan
Flag of the United States Mike Bryan 4-6, 6-4, [11]-[9]

[edit] Singles Grand Slam performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the US Open in Flushing Meadows, which concluded on September 9, 2007.
Tournament 2005 2006 2007 2008 Career SR Career Win-Loss
Australian Open A A 1R F 0 / 2 6-1
French Open 1R A A 0 / 1 0-1
Wimbledon A A 4R 0 / 1 3-1
US Open A A 3R 0 / 1 2-1
SR 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 3 0 / 1 0 / 5 N/A
Grand Slam Win-Loss 0-1 0-0 5-3 6-0 N/A 11 / 4

Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics.

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.