Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

MADRID, Spain: Former champions Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer powered into the Madrid Masters quarterfinals on Thursday.
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… to draw encouragement is that Nadal’s only defeat in the majors came at the Australian Open, when the victor was last-four debutant Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. …

There is never a bad time to become No 1 in the world, but Rafael Nadal will not need reminding that he is now moving into what has traditionally become his most difficult period of the year.

But I have to look at the guys that have given him trouble and the way that (Jo-Wilfried) Tsonga played against him in Australia this year.

Gasquet was forced out of the French Open last month with a knee injury and had little time to sympathise with fellow Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael …

The No. 2-seeded players combine to lose only three games in five sets as they advance to the quarterfinals.

… semi-finals in Indian Wells, that he had played one really bad match all year – in the semi-finals of the Australian Open against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. …