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Julien Benneteau #56 def. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga #14

7-6(4) 7-5

Match Information

Date	Oct 25, 2008*
Tournament	Lyon
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Carpet
Round	SF
Winner	Julien Benneteau
Score	7-6(4) 7-5
Loser	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Duration	1h 45m

Stat	Julien Benneteau	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Aces	7	14
Double faults	3	1
First serve %	72	57
First serve points won %	75	74
Second serve points won %	62	53
Break points saved %	75	67
Break points converted %	33	25
Service points won %	71	65
Return points won %	35	29
Total points won %	53	47

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Julien Benneteau	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Country	FRA	FRA
Birth date	Dec 20, 1981	Apr 17, 1985
Age	26	23
Height	185	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	56	14
Ranking points (entering)	704	1,485
Elo (entering)	1,772	1,946
Career W-L	269–292	445–228
Career earnings	$9,556,742	$22,524,073

Pre-match H2H

Julien Benneteau 1 – 1 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Path

Julien Benneteau's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 2008	QF	Steve Darcis	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 24, 2008	R16	Tommy Robredo	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 23, 2008	R32	Arnaud Clement	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Julien Benneteau's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 26, 2008	F	Robin Soderling	3-6 7-6(5) 1-6	L	H2H	Match data

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 2008	QF	Juan Carlos Ferrero	7-6(5) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 24, 2008	R16	Fabrice Santoro	6-2 5-7 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 23, 2008	R32	Marc Gicquel	7-5 4-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data