French Open 2017: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beaten by Renzo Olivo
Wednesday 31 May 2017 15:53, UK
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was eliminated from the French Open at the hands of world No 91 Renzo Olivo on Wednesday.
No French player has won a Grand Slam title since 1983 and their chances of winning on home soil significantly lessened with the exit of world No 12 Tsonga.
He was on the brink overnight after his first-round tie against Olivo was interrupted on Tuesday by bad light with potentially just one game remaining.
It ended 7-5 6-4 6-7 6-4 to Olivo, who duly polished off the final game on Wednesday, needing four match points to dispatch Tsonga, before explaining the difficulties of postponing the match from the previous night.
"We were back to the hotel around 1am, I had a massage, it was not easy to sleep," Olivo said. "I knew the first point [on Wednesday] was important."
Olivo, playing in his first French Open, meets Britain's Kyle Edmund in round two.
Dominic Thiem defeated Simone Bolelli 7-5 6-1 6-3 despite losing the first three games of the second-round tie. World No 6 Thiem remains the only player to beat Rafael Nadal on clay this year.
Steve Johnson defeated Borna Coric 6-2 7-6 3-6 7-6 to advance to the third round.
The American, who lost his father unexpectedly earlier this month, sobbed at the net after the match, while Coric angrily destroyed his racket in a series of full-blooded blows.
Elsewhere, 10th seed David Goffin defeated Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-2 6-4 3-6 6-3 while 11th-ranked Grigor Dimitrov beat Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo 6-3 6-4 7-5.
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