News Source: Sify News
| 2 months ago
Second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga paced a French charge into the quarter-finals of the Japan Open, defeating longtime rival and friend Richard Gasquet 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 in a match played in residual winds of a typhoon which passed through early Thursday.
News Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 2 months ago
Fabrice Santoro 's first visit to Tokyo ended quickly in a three-set defeat to former world number one Lleyton Hewitt of Australia in the Japan Open on Thursday. The veteran 36-year-old Frenchman, who is due to retire at the end of the season,...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 months ago
The French fourth seed, who fired off 15 aces while beating Marsel Ilhan of Turkey on Monday, hit another 10 aces to beat the Swiss 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 in the second round. Beijing Olympic doubles gold medallist Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, seeded...
News Source: United Press International
| 2 months ago
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet each won in straight sets Wednesday, setting up a second-round match at the $1.2 million Japan Open. Tsonga, seeded second, had 10 aces and dropped just one game on serve in beating Mischa Zverev 6-4, 6-3.
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 2 months ago
Second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga blasted past Germany's Mischa Zverev 6-4 6-3 to reach the last 16 of the Japan Open on Wednesday. The Frenchman will play countryman Richard Gasquet in the next round after the former top-10 player thrashed German...