Jo Wilfried Tsonga ousted Roger Federer 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 in 1 hour and 51 minutes to reach his first ever semi-final at Roland Garros, 2013 where he will face David Ferrer on Friday.
1st Set
Tsonga started with a comfortable love hold in the first game & had a break point on the very first service game of Federer. Though, the Swiss Maestro managed to save that break point. Federer then managed to break Tsonga's service in the 5th game with a scorching forehand and then comfortably, held his service to a 4-2 lead. It looked as if it will be a routine set for the Swiss Maestro, but clearly Tsonga had other ideas.
Tsonga however had a break point in the 8th game and managed to get the break back to level the first set at 4-all. The next 3 service game went on service with Tsonga holding 4 of his service games to love while Federer had a tougher time on his service mainly because of his errors that kept coming especially on the forehand side after every alternate point.
The French Man got three break points & set points in the 12th game, how ever Federer managed to save those three break points. How ever, Federer gifted another break point to Tsonga with a forehand error and Tsonga managed to break Federer's service and win the first set 7-5 in 39 minutes.
2nd set
Things went from bad to worst for Federer as he got broken on his very first service game (second game of the set) with 3 successive forehand errors. The French Man had two comfortable service holds to race to a 3-0 lead in the second set.
Tsonga again had a break point in the 6th game, but Federer managed to save it to make it 2-4. Three games later, Tsonga served out the set 6-3 in 35 minutes.
3rd set
Last year, Roger Federer in the Quarter-final of French Open came back from 2 sets down to win in 5 sets vs Juan Martin Del Potro, but that hope was dashed in the very first game as Federer double faulted to gift the first game of the 3rd set to the French Man.
How ever, Federer managed to break Tsonga's service the very next game to make it 1-all as Federer shouted his customary come on. Twp games later, Federer again had to face two break points managed to save those.
How ever at 3-3, on his service in the 7th game, Federer missed two easy overhead smash and that proved to be the last nail in the coffin as Federer got broken to hand over a 4-3 lead to the French Man.
Tsonga had a comfortable hold to make it 5-3 and Federer once again because of his unforced errors got broken and thus Tsonga won the 3rd set 6-3 in 37 minutes.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 in 1 hour and 51 minutes and will play his first ever semi-final at Roland Garros vs David Ferrer on Friday.
It was a lackluster display by Roger Federer with almost 80% of his 34 unforced errors coming on the forehand side.
As the Swiss Maestro said after the match, "I'm pretty sad with the result. Disappointed with the way I played. My game just wasn't working today. Things didn't go well."
Federer further added, "I thought Jo-WIlly (Tsonga) played pretty great today. In all areas he was better than me and that's why he won."
Federer further added, "In a way, I've moved past this loss already. I don't know what's next, I'll talk to my team to ready for Halle, Wimbledon."
Next up for Roger Federer will be the Gerry Weber Open, 2013 at Halle starting from Monday.
"Roger was training 2 days ago in Paris with Leander Paes and when he got to the practice court with his family , one of the many things Paes asked him afterwards was : ' Hey Roger, how come you never hold your daughters in arms like everyone else ?' He replied : 'My back Leander, my back ... it's not the same this year'.
Venezuelan ex-player and now ESPN commentator for LatinoAmerica Nicolas Pereira heard this conversation and tell everyone on air during the match with Tsonga today."
Starsica wrote:"Roger was training 2 days ago in Paris with Leander Paes and when he got to the practice court with his family , one of the many things Paes asked him afterwards was : ' Hey Roger, how come you never hold your daughters in arms like everyone else ?' He replied : 'My back Leander, my back ... it's not the same this year'.
Venezuelan ex-player and now ESPN commentator for LatinoAmerica Nicolas Pereira heard this conversation and tell everyone on air during the match with Tsonga today."
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