Jo-Wilfried Tsonga made it to the Wimbledon quarter-finals after his French compatriot Richard Gasquet pulled out with a back injury 24 minutes into their fourth round match on Monday.
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Men’s quarterfinals Wednesday: No. 2 Andy Murray vs.
No wonder Greensboro native John Isner favors Wimbledon changing to adopt a fifth-set tiebreaker. This was the ninth time in grand slams that he has gone beyond 6-6 and he has now lost five of them.
“I’d missed a couple of poor shots in that game, especially on the 30-all point”. “I would [like one], but I have said that a bunch”, he said. “But I can’t do anything about it”. “Sometimes it’s better for the body”. But at the same time it is good for the crowd and good for the story. What is hard for us is to play the day after. I didn’t care about any other match that was being played other than that match.
Resuming following Saturday’s rain-disrupted play, Tsonga took to the court full of life on Sunday and dominated the fourth set to take the match into a decider.
Federer, who has cruised through to the quarter-finals without dropping a set, thinks long final sets provide gripping entertainment, but can understand Isner’s point.
There was tension and drama on the court as Murray and Tsonga both broke each other’s serves, before Murray finally got the upper hand in a long tie-break.
Isner said Mahut did not enter his mind Tsonga admitted he had thought about it.
“A little bit”, Tsonga replied.
Former semi-finalist Juan-Martin Del Potro who beat No. 4 seed Stan Wawrinka in the previous round, bowed out to Lucas Pouille of France, failing to capitalise on taking the opening set. Murray is going for his second Wimbledon championship while Federer is gunning for his eighth Wimbledon title. Highlights include all of Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1 matches as well as tennis tournaments and some of the FA Cup and Capital One Cup games to name just few.
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Tsonga believes final set tie-breaks would be helpful to avoid pushing players’ bodies beyond their limits, making it impossible for them to recover in time for the next match. I did a great match today against the 30th player in the world, and I was there, very, very close to win that match. I need to work hard physically and on my wrist, my backhands.
