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Tsonga Keeps Rolling In Vienna, Improves Finals Hopes

Vienna, Austria

Tsonga© e|motion/zolles.comJo-Wilfried Tsonga is attempting to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals for a second time.

Top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was made to work for a place in the Erste Bank Open semi-finals on Friday, when he overcame 31-year-old Belgian Xavier Malisse 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-4 in just two hours.

Tsonga's 46th match win of the season further boosts his chances of qualifying for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals for the second time. The 26-year-old Frenchman is currently No. 8 in the South African Airways 2011 ATP Year-To-Date Rankings, with three singles spots left up for grabs at the elite season finale in London from 20-27 November.

Tsonga Visits Vienna's Riding School

In a big-serving encounter, Tsonga hit 20 aces and won 72 per cent of his service points, while World No. 50 Malisse - who converted one of his six break point opportunities - fired down 10 aces and won 74 per cent of his service points. Tsonga lost just one point on serve in the third set to improve to a 46-20 match record on the season, highlighted by lifting the Moselle Open title in Metz (d. Ljubicic).

"He broke me in my first service game, so it was difficult, but I was there and I fought and I won. So it’s good and I think I played a good match," assessed Tsonga. "It’s never easy to play against him; he hits the ball flat and it’s really difficult, but today I did the job."

Tsonga will meet Germany's Daniel Brands in the semi-finals on Saturday. Brands beat fellow qualifier Steve Darcis of Belgium 6-3, 6-4 in 72 minutes for just his fourth tour-level match win of the year.

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