Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was calved on April 17, 1985, in Le Mans, France. After turn grownup in 2004, he astonished the tennis world by thrashing Rafael Nadal to reaching the final of the 2008 Aussie Staring. The effectual European has also licked top players to move to the semifinal pronounce of the Carver Unlawful and Wimbledon.
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Country (sports) France
Residence Gingins, Switzerland
Born 17 April 1985
Le Mans, France
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Plays
Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
*occasionally uses one-handed backhand
Coach(es) Eric Winogradsky (2004–2011)
Roger Rasheed (2012–2013)
Thierry Ascione (2013–)
Nicolas Escudé (2013–)
Prize money $16,364,394
Singles
Career record 349–161 (68.43%)
Career titles 12
Highest ranking No. 5 (27 February 2012)
Current ranking No. 10 (19 October 2015)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open F (2008)
French Open SF (2013, 2015)
Wimbledon SF (2011, 2012)
US Open QF (2011, 2015)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals F (2011)
Olympic Games QF (2012)
Doubles
Career record 68–43
Career titles 4
Highest ranking No. 33 (26 October 2009)
Current ranking No. 186 (4 August 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 2R (2008)
Wimbledon Q1 (2007)
Team competitions
Davis Cup F (2010, 2014)
Hopman Cup W (2014)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Doubles
Tennis participant Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, nicknamed "Ali," was whelped on April 17, 1985, in Le Mans, France. His theologiser, Didier, is a previous Congolese handball contestant reversed alchemy pedagogue, and parent, Evelyne, a Gallic someone, is also an pedagogue. Tsonga's younger pal, Enzo, became a hoops contestant in Continent.
Tsonga began playacting sport at a preteen age, and was apace accepted as an advanced participant; in 2004, he revolved pro. According to the Tie of Tennis Professionals, Tsonga attributes his capableness to his priest, and his benignity to his mother.
Tsonga took the tennis humans by surprise in 2008, when, as an unplanted player, he licked Rafael Nadal in the semifinals of the Aussie Turn. That self twelvemonth, he won the Town Masters, and broke into the Top 10 with two titles.
Among several advancement highlights, Tsonga prefabricated it to the semifinals of the 2010 Inhabitant Unresolved, and disappointed sport icon Roger Federer in the quarterfinals of Suburb in 2011 and the 2013 Land Exterior. He dressed the 2014 toughen on a alto observe, defeating quaternity aboveboard players hierarchal in the Top 10 to take his indorsement Masters name. Tsonga then delivered a beardown viewing at the 2015 Sculptor Country, advancing to the semifinals before losing to Svizzera's Stan Wawrinka.
