Jo-Wilfried Tsonga News

A year ago, when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won this Paris Masters title over David Nalbandian, the 15,000-strong crowd - never a quiet assembly here at the Omnipalais - threatened to wreck the rafters with their acclaim.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is fit to begin the defense of his Paris Masters title on Tuesday after picking up a wrist injury last week.

Fernando Verdasco is chasing a Barclays ATP World Tour Finals spot. No. 4 seed Fernando Verdasco , who captured his first ATP World Tour title in Valencia five years ago, plays countryman and wild card Oscar Hernandez in the first round Wednesday at the Valencia Open 500.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga saw his chances of reaching the ATP World Tour Finals all but end after retiring from his opening match at the Valencia Open.

No. 4 seed Marin Cilic progressed to the second round in Basel on Wednesday, defeating flat-hitting German Philipp Petzschner, 6-4, 6-4. Cilic, who currently stands in the 12th position in the race to qualify for the Tour finale in London, could add another 45 points to his total if he defeats his next opponent Viktor Troicki.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga bowed out of the Valencia Open after being forced to retire while trailing Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 6-0 3-0 in round one.

Friends and French Davis Cup teammates Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were both pushed to decisive third sets in Valencia with decidedly different outcomes.

ANDY Murray is hoping to reign in Spain this week as he seeks his 14th career title at the Valencia Open.

World No.12 Gilles Simon reached the second round of the Grand Prix de tennis de Lyon with a 7-6 7-6 win over Simone Bolelli from Italy.

LYON: Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga qualified for the quarter-finals of the ATP event here on Thursday with five other Frenchmen, leaving Croatian Ivan Ljubicic as the only non-French player left in the draw.

AFP/File France's Arnaud Clement, seen here on October 23,shocked top seed and fellow Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Fri Oct 30, 7:04 pm ET LYON, France Arnaud Clement shocked top seed and fellow Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon ATP event here.

Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon easily won second-round matches Thursday at the Lyon Tennis Grand Prix in France.

Once touted as a future world No. 1, Latvian Ernests Gulbis has been endured one of his worst seasons to date.

Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga served 14 aces and needed two tiebreaks to beat Kevin Kim of the United States 7-6 , 7-6 in the first round of the Lyon Grand Prix on Tuesday.

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Moscow No. 6 seed Mikhail Youzhny advanced to his third final of the season on Saturday, dispatching the unheralded efforts of Kazakhstani qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin 6-2, 6-1. The decisive one hour and eight minute victory propelled Youzhny to his second straight final, after reaching the championship match at the Japan Open .

French players Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and teammate Julien Benneteau pose with their doubles trophy yesterday.

Mikhail Youzhny, who at No. 3 was the highest seeded player in action Monday, was a winner over Horacio Zeballos in the opening round of the Kremlin Cup.

Julien Benneteau and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were playing together for just the third time this week.

Results Sunday from the Shanghai Masters, a $3.24 million ATP event on hard courts at the Qi Zhong Tennis Center : Doubles Final Julien Benneteau and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, def.