{"id":32472,"date":"2017-01-22T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T13:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=32472"},"modified":"2017-01-22T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T13:38:54","slug":"jo-wilfried-tsonga-reaches-quarter-finals-in-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=32472","title":{"rendered":"Jo-Wilfried Tsonga reaches quarter-finals in Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-32471\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"345\" alt=\"Jo Wilfried Tsonga\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Melbourne: Twelfth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga advanced to the quarter-finals of the <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/2261-australian-open\"><strong>Australian Open<\/strong><\/a> tennis with a tight 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 fourth-round win over Daniel Evans here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 runner-up is into the quarter-finals here for the first time since 2013, according to atpworldtour.com.<\/p>\n<p>Tsonga will next play fourth seed Stanislas Wawrinka for a place in the last four.<\/p>\n<p>Evans was competing in the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton continued his hot form against Tsonga, striking first in the tie-break by taking a 3-1 lead and holding his slight advantage the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Tsonga responded brilliantly by racing to a 4-0 lead in the second set and ultimately levelling the match at one set each.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman broke Evans immediately to start off the third set. Little separated the pair, but that early advantage was all Tsonga needed to take a commanding lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<a href=\"tennis-news\/43796-pavlyuchenkova-downs-kuznetsova-to-reach-australian-open-quarters\">Pavlyuchenkova downs Kuznetsova to reach Australian Open quarters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fourth set was nearly identical, with Tsonga grabbing an early break and comfortably serving out the match to love to prevail in two hours and 53 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Tsonga, who was runner-up here in 2008, is bidding to reach his first major semi-final since The the 2015 French Open, where he fell to Wawrinka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-32471\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"345\" alt=\"Jo Wilfried Tsonga\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Melbourne: Twelfth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga advanced to the quarter-finals of the <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/2261-australian-open\"><strong>Australian Open<\/strong><\/a> tennis with a tight 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 fourth-round win over Daniel Evans here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 runner-up is into the quarter-finals here for the first time since 2013, according to atpworldtour.com.<\/p>\n<p>Tsonga will next play fourth seed Stanislas Wawrinka for a place in the last four.<\/p>\n<p>Evans was competing in the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[268,10728,466,1871,12894],"class_list":["post-32472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-daniel-evans","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-jo-wilfried-tsonga","tag-tennis-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jo-Wilfried Tsonga reaches quarter-finals in Australian Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=32472\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jo-Wilfried Tsonga reaches quarter-finals in Australian Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Melbourne: Twelfth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga advanced to the quarter-finals of the Australian Open tennis with a tight 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 fourth-round win over Daniel Evans here on Sunday. 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