#2:Tennis - Tsonga loses ground in race to London with early exit

abc news - #2:Tennis - Tsonga loses ground in race to London with early exit


Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France serves during his men's semi-final match against Rafael Nadal of Spain at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament in Shanghai on October 17, 2015. AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER (AFP Photo/Greg Baker)


- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the 2011 Vienna champion, lost ground in his race for a place at the ATP year-end championships after going down 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 to Lukas Rosol on Thursday in the Austrian Open second round. The Frenchman who started the week on provisional ninth for the eight-man finals next month in London, all but admitted that his chances are gone after tasting defeat against the Czech player, four days after losing the Shanghai Masters final against world number one Novak Djokovic. "Today, I didn't play good enough to win. I tried, but things did not work for me." The defeat strengthened the hand of David Ferrer, who spent a mere 62 minutes in delivering a crushing 6-1, 6-1 defeat to fellow Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez to stay in the thick of the London points chase on eighth with the last two spots in the field still to be claimed.