Tennis: Tsonga wins Vienna title
Top-seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga moved to seventh in the race for an ATP year-end finals spot as he became the first Frenchman to win the Austrian Open with a 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 defeat of second-seed Juan Martin Del Potro.
Tsonga wrapped up victory after nearly two-and-a-half hours to claim the seventh title of his career, firing 25 aces in the match.
Del Potro had won all three of the pair’s previous meetings. Tsonga’s victory sends him past American Mardy Fish into provisional seventh place for the November 20–27 ATP World Tour Finals in London.
He added the Vienna honours to the trophy he claimed at home in Metz last month.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 31st, 2011.
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