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Day 10 - (2) Roger Federer (SUI) v (7) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
Head-to-head
| 8-3 in the Swiss Maestro’s favour. | Tsonga may trail 8-3, but he has the advantage of knowing that in their only five-set match, at Wimbledon 2011, the Frenchman prevailed. |
Will win if...
| He stays the course. Federer has shown improvement in each match and is yet to drop a set. Is he in the form of his life? Probably not, but he’s playing some mighty fine tennis. | He’s on. If Jo comes out and plays his powerful attacking brand of tennis then he will give himself every chance to win. |
Heading in...
| Benoit Paire, Nikolay Davydenko, Bernard Tomic and Milos Raonic – not a bad list of conquests, but none are up to Tsonga’s standard. | Michael Llodra, Go Soeda, Blaz Kavcic and Richard Gasquet – it’s been a relatively straightforward draw for Tsonga, Gasquet the standout among that group of players. |
Look out for...
| All-court game. Federer has every shot in the book down to a final art and then a few more that aren’t. | Power. Few can match Jo when he’s on the burst. |
Know this stat
| 23. The number of unforced errors Federer is averaging per match. | 28. Jo is averaging a few more unforced errors per match than Federer. |
X-factor
| Experience. This is the Fed’s 35th consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal; nobody is better equipped mentally for these matches. | Momentum. If Jo gets on a run he can be hard to stop, as Federer found out at Wimbledon 2011. |