In a week Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who fell to 267th place at the ATP (he was fifth in 2012), will bid farewell to the world circuit at Roland-Garros, during the French tennis internationals. A few days earlier he did them in Lyon, where he had won the “open Parc Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Lyon” of which he is the ambassador in 2017. His only title on clay. And where he logically lost on Monday to the Slovak Alex Molcan (24), forty-seventh player in the world and recent finalist in the Marrakech tournament.
“Even today I got chills when you cheered me on. A page turns, but this book, I will not forget it” commented, on the central court of this ATP 250 Le Manceau (37 years old), beaten 6/4, 6/4 in 1H32 ‘. By having given everything, despite his physical limitations at the end of his career. As per usual.
Gael Monfils package!
Note that the Lyon tournament lost, at the start of the afternoon, another illustrious French player, in this case Gaël Monfils, still injured in the foot and also forfeited at Roland-Garros.