ATP Tokyo – Tsonga falls against Dodig

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was surprised today against Ivan Dodig and compromises his chances to qualify for London

The French number 1 is currently the 10^th in the race to London and needs to collect as many points he can in order to qualify. Today he faced Croatian Ivan Dodig and was trying to avoid a second straight loss against Dodig, in the previous match last year at Queen’s Dodig claimed the victory 7 – 6 3 – 6 7 – 6. Tsonga is still recovering from knee injury and struggled against Ivan strong serve not being able to break the Croatian serve. After less than 1 hour and 30 minutes Dodig closed the match 6 - 4 7 - 6.

Dodig pulled off a major upset and second career victory over Tsonga, the Croatian will play in the next stage against Jarkko Nieminen

Match Stats:

                 Ivan Dodig:                                                Jo-Wilfried Tsonga:

Aces                                   9                                                                     9

                                           

Double Faults                     1                                                                     2
   

First serve in                     72%                                                                 65%

First serve won                  79%                                                                 79%

Second serve won              55%                                                                  52%

Break Points Saved          3/3 (100%)                                                        0/1 (0%)