Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a former Australian Open runner-up and world No 5, said he "couldn't have asked for a better script" as he bid an emotional goodbye to tennis at Roland Garros on Tuesday.

Tsonga opened the match with a 130-mph-plus ace, but on the very next point he attacked the net, hit a sublime backhand half-volley cross-court to the corner, and made the mistake of admiring his ...

Tsonga's decision to quit will throw the spotlight on the current crop of French twenty-somethings. The view's not pretty. Ugo Humbert at the age of 23 is the highest ranked at 47 in the world.

Tsonga, 37, announced last month that he would step away from the tour he has graced for 19 years at the 2022 French Open. With his ranking at 297, the French Federation de Tennis, which organises ...

A lingering lower back problem has forced Jo-Wilfried Tsonga out of his home Grand Slam at the French Open and the rest of 2020, the former world No. 5 said on Wednesday. Tsonga, 35, has not ...

Tsonga showed plenty of early promise as a tennis player but his progress was stalled by serious back problems. He made up for lost time at the 2008 Australian Open, when he beat Andy Murray in ...

Tsonga's father, Didier, who was born in Congo, came to live in the Sarthé department while studying for a chemistry degree in the late 1970s. He met his future wife, Evelyne, and Jo-Wilfried was ...

It was Tsonga's turn to serve first in the second set, and again it began with a exchange of breaks. But unlike Fish in the previous set, Tsonga managed to hold his second service game go up 2-1.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is two victories away from becoming the first local male player to win the French Open in 30 years after he dismantled Roger Federer in a stunning 7-5 6-3 6-3 victory in Tuesday ...

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga stopped his match against Australian Omar Jasika to help a ball girl who had been hit in the face with a ball, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

On her latest “mixtape”, What a Life, the flamboyant Sho Madjozi pays homage to her Tsonga roots, most poignantly in the track Shahumba which features the legendary Dr Thomas Chauke (sadly no ...