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Sam Querrey upsets Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in two-day victory

By Gale Moorman

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 08: Sam Querrey of The United States and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France shake hands after their Gentlemen's Singles third round match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France on day six of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 8, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 08: Sam Querrey of The United States and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France shake hands after their Gentlemen's Singles third round match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France on day six of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 8, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images) /
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Sam Querrey outlasts Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a two-day match victory. The American advances to face Kevin Anderson on Monday.

Matches are suspended for only a few reasons: rain and darkness. Regardless the situation, both players have to stay focused hoping to come back with a winning momentum.

Unfortunately this didn’t happen to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Sam Querrey, however, rose to the occasion and remained focused after the delay.

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"“I’m frustrated because I lost in two minutes”, Jo-Wildred Tsonga had said disgustedly."

But that was the end of the match. The beginning started Friday and the 29th ranked American Sam Querrey has made a history of two-day victory matches: one in 2016 when he won the match with Novak Djokovic at four sets and now with Tsonga.

Both Querrey and Tsonga went through their 5 sets of joy, defeats and wins and as darkness covered the skies of London and everyone was squinting to see the ball, the match was suspended with the final and fifth set being 6-5 in Querrey’s favor.

Tsonga might have slept over the thought of winning the match but when both came back Saturday at 1 in the afternoon, it took just four points to finish off the match and leave the Frenchman at a loss of the entire tournament.

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This win saw Sam Querrey earn a second Wimbledon of going to the fourth round. But for Tsonga, round four of any Wimbledon is pure deja vu when last year he won the round because Richard Gasquet retired and in 2015 he lost in the third round, never making it into the fourth.

There was also another day-after victory in 2014, but that time it swung Tsonga’s way in the second round this time, with him winning in the last set 14-12. After all, there’s nothing that can be done and Sam Querrey gets the victory of 6-2, 3-6 7-6 (7-5), 1-6, 7-5 to end the match.

"Tsonga was really devastated, but being a tennis journeyman for years, all he could say was: “That’s just tennis” and he walked out ending his 2017 run at The All-England Club."

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