Tennis likes to juggle with figures, to see generations collide in order to get out of impossible rankings, sources of endless debate.
Patrick Proisy immersed himself in the archives of French Grand Slam tennis.
“I have established a ranking with the points awarded by the ATP for places in the quarter, half and final of the Grand Slam.
And when Jo-Wilfried
Tsonga, extraordinary
(37 years old, 267th in the world),
announced that he would be retiring after Roland-Garros
, I thought that the time had perhaps come to pay tribute to his career
(18 titles , including 2 in Masters 1000).
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And his consistency in Grand Slams (finalist at the Australian Open 2008; semi-finalist at Roland-Garros in 2013 and 2015, and at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2012; quarter-finalist 9 times).
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Tsonga has been at the top of the Grand Slam rankings since the start of the Open era established by Patrick Proisy.
He is ahead of Cédric Pioline (finalist at the US Open 1993 and Wimbledon 1997; semi-finalist at Roland-Garros…
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