Atp Tennis - Tsonga Obtains The Third Atp World Tour Title Of His Career

The French tennis player of 23 years-old Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, won the third ATP title of his career in the SA Tennis Open at Johannesburg, South Africa in an hour and 48 minutes without dropping a set. Tsonga beat his countryman Jeremy Chardy in great way 6-4, 7-6(7-5). Both players played at their best but the experience of Tsonga in crucial moments gave him an edge to win the title. Tsonga won a total of $79.000 and his counterpart Chardy got the second place with $41,500. This ATP Tour final was the first one for the 21-years-old and No.61 of the world Jeremy Chardy.

During the game, Tsonga had a very good serve, making a total of 16 aces whereas Chardy did his job as well converting 11 aces. Tsonga took advantage of Chardy’s errors, which at the end cost him the sets and the game. In the first set, both players were defending successfully their serves, until Tsonga managed to break Chardy’s last serve to win the set.

Things ran almost the same in the second set, with incredible serves and both Frenchmen defending them, but this time none of them could break and that leaded to a tie-break in which both players lost their first service and the game became a strong battle. However, Tsonga with his experience and intelligent game forced Chardy to a service error to win the tie-break 7-5, winning the set and the championship.

Before coming to his first ATP final, in the semi-finals Jeremy Chardy defeated the World No. 5 and second seeded for the tournament, the Spaniard David Ferrer, which resulted as a surprise to Ferrer’s followers. For his part, Tsonga beat the Portuguese Frederico Gil 6-3, 6-4 at the semi-finals.

Tsonga expressed that he was really excited for this win and hopes to keep improving for the future tournaments. According to him, getting into finals previously has given him more confidence and his game is growing with the time and experience.

"I did a great job this week and am enjoying this moment. I am very happy to have succeeded. I played a great match. I served very well and I think his inexperience was evident at 5-4 in the first set when he missed some easy shots. But now he has some experience and I hope he's going to do well next time," expressed Tsonga.

This is Tsonga’s third ATP World Tour title and his first one this season 2009. His first two titles were obtained last year, first at the ATP World Tour in Bangkok defeating Novak Djokovic and then at the ATP Masters Series in Paris were he beat David Nalbandian. Moreover, it has to be mentioned that this start of the ATP 2009 campaign has been incredible for Tsonga, since he has reached three quarterfinals at Brisbane, Sydney and the Australian Open, besides adding this ATP title. In this good moment, we wish the best to Tsonga and we hope to see him growing on his tennis and showing all his amazing talent at the following tournaments.

By: Ally White

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