Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Advances To Australian Open Finals After Thrashing Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-3, 6-2
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Is On Fire!
Unseeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France was a stray underdog to win the semi-final match against No. 2 seed and World No. 2 Rafael Nadal of Spain. Sure, Tsonga was able to get through his fellow Frenchman No. 8 seed Richard Gasquet, then he breezed through the No. 14 seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny in the quarter-finals. But then, to oust the World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in straight sets 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 is just a remarkable feat for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
After all, prior to the semi-final match against Tsonga, Rafael Nadal hadn’t dropped a single set throughout the entire 2008 Australian Open competition. An inspired Jo-Wilfried Tsonga brought his A-game and dominated Rafael Nadal from start to finish, breaking Nadal’s serve in the first game and doing it again and again.
What’s remarkable about Jo-Wilfried Tsonga’s win is that apart from being unseeded going into the 2008 Australian Open, Tsonga hasn’t ever won a major tournament. In fact, Tsonga was a nobody. But now, after defeating Rafael Nadal in straight sets, even a feat that World No. 1 Roger Federer has a tough task accomplishing, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is proving to be a tennis player to be reckoned with in the ATP Tennis Tour.
Certainly, the world will be watching when Tsonga competes in the 2008 Australian Open Men’s Singles Finals. And certainly, odds makers will make the necessary changes in future tennis tournaments, and maybe the next time, Tsonga will be a top-seed, or even a probable World No. 1 in the future.
In the meantime, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga awaits the results of the semi-final match between No. 1 seed Roger Federer of Switzerland and No. 3 seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia.
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