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10/11/10 4:29 PM | Ricky Dimon
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is back in the winner's circles with a straight-set defeat of Feliciano Lopez on Monday in Shanghai. Next up for Tsonga is either Sam Querrey or Michael Berrer.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Feliciano Lopez 7-6(4), 6-3 in the first round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Monday afternoon. Tsonga needed one hour and 24 minutes to earn his first match victory since Wimbledon.
Returning from a knee injury last week in Tokyo, Tsonga lost his opener in three sets to Jarkko Nieminen. This time, however, the 13th-ranked Frenchman managed to shake off the rust and find some form. His first-serve was especially impressive and he won 19 of those 22 points in the first set.
Tsonga fought off a pair of break points and Lopez saved three en route to an opening-set tiebreaker. That's when the turning point came, with Tsonga rolling through the 'breaker seven points to four.
Lopez could not recover in the second, in part due to more dominant serving from Tsonga. The No. 12 seed won all 14 of his first-serve points, so one early break was all he needed before finishing off the match at 5-3.
"Today was not my best day," Lopez posted on Twitter afterward. The 29-year-old Spaniard wrapped up his effort with five aces and three double-faults.
It was a better day for Tsonga, although he still sees room from improvement. "I think I have to work on everything because when you come back, you lose a lot of things," he explained. "I have to practice my serve - my best weapon and also my worst."
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