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1. Voo de Mar says:

   August 6, 2025 at 2:04 pm

   Points won by each set: | 40-38, 22-28, 29-27 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   39 % Tsonga – 36 of 91
   32 % Murray – 30 of 93

   As Tsonga reached the Australian Open ’08 final, and won Paris-Bercy the same year, it seemed that he’d be a Top 5 player for the years to come, instead he’d become a solid Top 10 player in the early 10s, yet unable to repeat his results of 2008. And finally everything clicked when he was 29 at the Canadian Open – in the third round he took advantage of Djokovic’s tiredness to destroy the Serb in the third round after 11 consecutive defeats, then he struggled past Murray having lost to him 8 times in a row. Two days later Tsonga [15] would defeat Federer in the final making his second and last Masters 1K title even more valuable. The quarterfinal against Murray [9] featured two sudden shifts of the momentum. For almost two sets, the match depended on the serve, yet Tsonga didn’t convert a double mini-match point at 4-all in the 2nd set, and the Scot collected five games on the trot. It seemed done and dusted, then the Frenchman increased his level to get five straight games, improving from *0:3 to 5:3 in the decider! Serving for the victory, Tsonga quickly got three points thanks to ~230 km/h serves, but the triple match point evaporated, and Murray had a decent chance to make a successful passing-shot to create a break point, he netted though. Tsonga capitalised on his fourth match point with a slice ace. A few weeks later they would face each other in the US Open fourth round, and Murray came back to dismantling Tsonga’s prowess, defeating him 7-5, 7-5, 6-4, simply attacking Tsonga’s backhand at the most crucial moments.

   Serve & volley: Tsonga 6/6, Murray 1/1

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