Tsonga joins the exodus of seeds at Queen’s Club
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JO-WILFRIED Tsonga became the latest star to crash out of Queen’s Club as the world No. 10 was beaten 4-6, 4-6 by Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller yesterday.
After world No. 1 Andy Murray, three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka and former Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic all endured shock first-round defeats on Tuesday, it was Tsonga’s turn to suffer a surprise second-round exit.
Fifth seed Tsonga is traditionally a powerful force on grass and finished as Queen’s runner-up in 2011, while twice appearing in the Wimbledon semifinals.
But the 32-year-old, who has won titles in Lyon, Marseille and Rotterdam in 2017, was out of sorts from start to finish against the big-serving Muller.
It took Muller just 69 minutes to hand Tsonga another frustrating loss on the heels of his embarrassing first-round exit against Renzo Olivo at the French Open.
“Sometimes you cannot do anything because the guy in front of you is doing the right things to make you play in a bad way,” Tsonga said. “I played two matches here. That’s life. I’ll try to play better in Wimbledon.”
Muller’s impressive display maintained his recent surge, which has seen the 34-year-old win the ‘s-Hertogenbosch grasscourt title last week and reach a career-high ranking of 26.
Muller is in the quarterfinals at the Wimbledon warm-up event for a third successive year and will play former Queen’s champion Sam Querrey or Australia’s Jordan Thompson next.
Donald Young reached the Queen’s quarterfinals for the first time as the American world No. 55 defeated Serbia’s Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-4.
In Birmingham, twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova continued her comeback on grass with a 6-2, 6-2 win over British wildcard Naomi Broady at the Aegon Classic yesterday.
The Czech 7th seed, who only returned to competition at the French Open after suffering a hand injury in a knife attack at her home in December, moves into the quarterfinals at the Edgbaston Priory Club.
She took 62 minutes to deal with Broady, never dropping serve and landing nearly 70 percent of her first serves.
Australian Daria Gavrilova beat Kvitova’s compatriot Katerina Siniakova 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 and will next face either another Czech, Lucie Safarova, or Japan’s Naomi Osaka.
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