Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Powerful Tsonga Surges Through Federer ;Meets Ferrer in the semis :

Sixth seed Tsonga made a huge upset against Roger Federer as he won the Swiss maestro 7-5 6-3 6-3 to reach his maiden French open semi final .
Set 1
Tsonga had started out with a mission , and he was able to make that mission possible at beginning of the set has he troubled Roger's first service game . How ever Roger Federer was the first to make a striking blood breaking the French at the 5h game courtesy of some good serving .But Roger could not capitalise on that advantage has a strung of forehand errors allowed Tsonga to Break back in the 8th game .
Point of the set was when Roger  was serving 5-6 15-40 and Tsonga was just bursting heavy forehands , but of a sudden when Tsonga Approached the net Roger had produced a Magical backhand flick winner but all that hard was undone when he again made another of couple of unforced errors on his forehand side

Some Stats        Tsonga        Federer
First serve %.     77               66
winners                 7                  9
Unforced errors   7                13
Set 2
Tsonga had no problem with his serving at all since the middle of first set and he had showed  cased it again in the beginning of the second  set by serving hard to Roger , he then raced to a 3-0 lead courtesy of a errorful game in the Roger's First service of game of the set .
Roger did play a bit  of finesse has he made a lovely drops here and there ,even Tsonga had given a Federer Forehand drop text book .
Tsonga easily took the second set 6-3

Some Stats          Tsonga            Federer
First serve %             76               79
Winners                      11               9
unforced errors            7                 9
Total points won         33             22

Set 3
Roger had to surely make a quick come back but we saw the most unusual Roger has he had been serving double faults making errors from his strong side ( forehand ) .
Tsonga did seem to loose his cool a bit in the 3rd set but that was his excitement of his wish to win that took over . Tsonga took the match changer at the 7th game courtesy of some bad forehands and a miss hit smash from .He had no problem in serving out the  match as Federer"s backhand just handed him the match over to Tsonga .

Federer

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