Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

• Residence           Gingins, Switzerland
• Born      17 April 1985 (age 30) Le Mans, France
• Height   1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 91 kg
• Plays      Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
• Coach (es)      Eric Winogradsky, Roger Rasheed 
• Nicolas Escudé (2013–)

               

                             

     Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (born 17 April 1985) is a French talented professional tennis player currently placed World No. 12.Tsonga's father, a handball player Didier Tsonga, is from Congo-Brazzaville, and his mother Évelyne is French. Jo's father moved to France during the 1970s to fulfill his own dreams of becoming a handball professional player, where he eventually met Évelyne and they married. Tsonga is nicknamed Ali, because of his facial similarity to the boxer.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has a younger brother (Enzo) who, much like Jo, has been inspired to play sports and is part of the French basketball program (junior). He also has an elder sister (Sasha) who is less involved with sporting ventures. His footballing cousin is Maël Lépicier who plays for Congo. Tsonga and Gaël Monfils developed a good friendship from a young age, when they enjoyed mimicking all the tennis greats of the past.

Awards and achievements:

Tsonga has won 11 titles in his career. As a junior, Tsonga reached a ranking of No. 2 in the world and won the US Open title. He reached four other semifinals of junior Grand Slam events. Marcos Baghdatis was a rival of Tsonga on the junior tour.

Tsonga is a member of the Tennis Club de Paris (TCP). His career-high singles ranking is World No. 5, which he achieved in February 2012.

Tsonga representation to fame by quality of his performance in the 2008 Australian Open when, as an unseeded player, he reached the final, having defeated four seeded players along the way, including earning a straight-sets win over the World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the semifinals. Tsonga eventually lost to the World No. 3 Novak Djokovic in the final in four sets, after winning the first set, the only set Djokovic plunged during the tournament.

Tsonga followed this up by winning his first ATP Masters Series championship at the 2008 Paris Masters, thus qualifying for the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, China. His best presentations in a major tournament since 2008 are semifinal arrivals in the 2010 Australian Open, the 2013 French Open and at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2012. He also reached the final of the 2011 ATP World Tour Finals, where he lost to five-time and defending champion Roger Federer. He achieved his second Masters Series win at the 2014 Canadian Open, defeating four top 10 players on the way to victory.

He is one of the few energetic players on tour to have reached the quarterfinal stage of all four Grand Slams. He is also one of only three players (the others being Tomáš Berdych and Stan Wawrnka) to have Grand Slam wins against each of the Big Four (namely Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray).

Relationship status: 

in any type of relations tosonga is ambiguous because some sources says that he has been secretly married with his long-term friend but some says that he is single. Also, French player denies his wedding news.