Novak Djokovic beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-4 in the Shanghai final, 2015 on hard court
It was Djokovic's 3rd title at the event. Tsonga was seeded 16th and had beaten Rafael Nadal among others en route to the final
Djokovic won 68 points, Tsonga 42
Serve Stats
Djokovic...
- 1st serve percentage (28/41) 68%
- 1st serve points won (25/28) 89%
- 2nd serve points won (9/13) 69%
- Aces 3
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (13/41) 32%
Tsonga....
- 1st serve percentage (44/69) 64%
- 1st serve points won (31/44) 70%
- 2nd serve points won (4/25) 16%
- Aces 5
- Double Faults 3
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (20/69) 29%
Serve Patterns
Djokovic served...
- to FH 37%
- to BH 54%
- to Body 10%
Tsonga served...
- to FH 36%
- to BH 39%
- to Body 24%
Return Stats
Djokovic made...
- 46 (22 FH, 24 BH)
- 1 Winner (1 FH)
- 15 Errors, comprising...
- 3 Unforced (2 FH, 1 BH), including 1 runaround BH
- 12 Forced (3 FH, 9 BH)
- Return Rate (46/66) 70%
Tsonga made...
- 28 (15 FH, 13 BH), including 1 runaround FH & 1 return-approach
- 10 Errors, comprising...
- 6 Unforced (1 FH, 5 BH)
- 4 Forced (1 FH, 3 BH)
- Return Rate (28/41) 68%
Break Points
Djokovic 4/13 (7 games)
Tsonga 1/1
Winners (including returns, excluding serves)
Djokovic 15 (9 FH, 4 BH, 2 FHV)
Tsonga 10 (8 FH, 1 BHV, 1 OH)
Djokovic's FHs - 3 cc (1 pass), 1 dtl/inside-out, 2 inside-out (1 return pass), 1 inside-out/dtl at net, 1 inside-in and 1 inside-in/cc
- BHs - 1 cc, 1 dtl, 1 inside-out and 2 drop shot
Tsonga's FHs - 2 cc (1 pass), 1 cc/inside-in, 2 dtl (1 at net) and 3 inside-in (1 at net)
- 1 OH on the bounce from no-man's land
Errors (excluding serves and returns)
Djokovic 12
- 8 Unforced (5 FH, 2 BH, 1 BHV)
- 4 Forced (1 FH, 3 BH)
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 43.8
Tsonga 37
- 26 Unforced (19 FH, 4 BH, 3 BHV)... with 1 FH at net
- 11 Forced (4 FH, 5 BH, 1 FHV, 1 FH1/2V)... with 1 BH running-down-drop-shot at net
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 48.5
(Note 1: All 1/2 volleys refer to such shots played at net. 1/2 volleys played from other parts of the court are included within relevant groundstroke numbers)
(Note 2: the Unforced Error Forcefulness Index is an indicator of how aggressive the average UE was. The numbers presented for these two matches are keyed on 4 categories - 20 defensive, 40 neutral, 50 attacking and 60 winner attempt)
Net Points & Serve-Volley
Djokovic was 10/13 (77%) at net
Tsonga was...
- 7/16 (44%) at net, including...
- 2/4 (50%) serve-volleying, comprising...
- 2/3 (67%) off 1st serve and...
- 0/1 off 2nd serve
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- 1/1 return-approaching
- 1/1 retreated
Match Report
Completely one sided encounter. Djokovic is grooved and clinical while Tsonga, save a few good first serves, is poor on a quickish court
Key stat is Tsonga with 26 UEs (19 of them FHs). Djokovic has 8. Djokovic's winners and errors forced total 26 too
One sidedness is captured in Djokovic winning 62% of the points, while serving just 37% of them
Djokovic has break points in 7/9 return games. And 1 of the games he doesn't also goes to deuce
Meanwhile, he cruises through on serve to remarkable extent. He loses 1 point on service in second set to Tsonga's sole return-approach. And wins 28/29 service points starting towards end of first set to the end
4 breaks by Djoko. Tsonga snatches 1 after going down 2 break to start the match. A game containing 4 of Djoko's match long 8 UEs
And Tsonga? He wins 35 points on serve - and 20 of those are unreturned serves. In other words, when return is made, he wins 15/46 or just 33% points when his serve is returned. That's excluding double faults. Including those, the number falls to 15/49.
Typically, strong serving from Tsonga. He's got 5 aces to Djoko's 3 (though rate at sending them down is about the same), and Djoko is much better at moving to return. Tsonga also with high 24% serves to the body (Djoko has 10%), which are serves that aren't likely to go for aces. 12/15 return errors from Djoko have been marked forced. In short, good serving from Tsonga
And better returning from Djokovic. He silkily strikes balls deep down the middle. There's a clinical, effortlessness to the shots that make 'thumps' or 'whacks' ineffective adjectives to describe Djoko's returns. Easier on the eyes than his norm but just as effective. He reads the serves, most apparent in his getting out the way early against the large lot of body serves to play them without getting cramped
One result is Tsonga winning remarkable (for wrong reasons) 4/25 second serve points. And his is a good second serve in that they're not easy to attack. Not that Djoko 'attacks' them exactly... this is just normal returning for him
It makes Tsonga's returning look even poorer than it is. Tsonga's slow to move for the return and stumped by anything slightly wide. Comes down late on a couple regulation, in swing-zone first serves of decent pace as to barely hit the ball. You'd think they were Karlovic thunderbolts to see Tsonga's return. Similar or even better serves from Tsonga get the easy, down the middle near the baseline treatment from Djokovic when roles are reversed
Unreturned rates though are close - Djoko 32%, Tsonga 29%. And with Tsonga double faulting thrice to Djoko's 0, return rate is even closer. Once return is made, they rally
Solid, clean hitting from Djoko off both sides. And Tsonga doesn't do much right.
He tries to attack with wide FHs or more aggressively still to corners. And misses habitually, early in rallies. Djoko's deep returns make attacking shots difficult and Tsonga is nowhere near good enough to pull off such shots
On both both attacking and winner attempt UEs, Tsonga has 8 and Djoko has 1. No need to strain for Djoko. Good clean hitting, and let Tsonga mess up
Its neutrally that matters are closest, and UEs on that score read Djoko 6, Tsonga 9 (+ 1 defensive UE). No attempt by Tsonga to play neutrally for long - and despite stats, that's wise. Its highly unlikely he can trade groundies with Djoko off either side for long without giving up the errors. Going on reputation, you could say he's smart to keep things on his FH - which is powerful enough to be potentially damaging at least, if still loose and error prone - than BH. The errors come from FH at more than enough of a rate to sink him anyway, but he does have 8 FH winners too - 1 less than Djoko
On his service games, Djoko gets a big lot of unreturneds (as much for Tsonga's sub-par returning as good serving) at 32% with 6 return UEs to 4 FEs on return for Tsonga. Returns that are made leave Djoko in charge, he hits controlled, attacking third balls and often follows it to net. Djoko's 10/13 in forecourt - mostly forcing hard passing errors. Many of his match high 9 FH winners are taken from well in court too.
On return games, Djoko returns as described earlier and Tsonga either strains for an attacking shot or winner attempt against a good, deep ball (and misses) or they rally for a awhile before Tsonga looks to turn to attack (again, usually missing). Getting to net doesn't do him much good. He's 7/16 there and even lower 4/11 just rallying to net. 4 forecourt UEs - poor from so few approaches
Summing up, clean and efficient from Djokovic. He serves decently and attacks in measured way weak returns. Returns extremely well, with seeming ease, striking balls back deep and flat while apparently reading the serve. And in play, keeps ball in play with clean strikes off both sides, changing up off the BH to dtl on occasion particularly well. Save some good power serving, not much that Tsonga does well. Can't keep ball in court from the back, in a hurry to attack against tricky deep balls leading to more errors and missing volleys when he can get up front
Clinical from Djokovic, and poor from Tsonga. More the latter than the former
It was Djokovic's 3rd title at the event. Tsonga was seeded 16th and had beaten Rafael Nadal among others en route to the final
Djokovic won 68 points, Tsonga 42
Serve Stats
Djokovic...
- 1st serve percentage (28/41) 68%
- 1st serve points won (25/28) 89%
- 2nd serve points won (9/13) 69%
- Aces 3
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (13/41) 32%
Tsonga....
- 1st serve percentage (44/69) 64%
- 1st serve points won (31/44) 70%
- 2nd serve points won (4/25) 16%
- Aces 5
- Double Faults 3
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (20/69) 29%
Serve Patterns
Djokovic served...
- to FH 37%
- to BH 54%
- to Body 10%
Tsonga served...
- to FH 36%
- to BH 39%
- to Body 24%
Return Stats
Djokovic made...
- 46 (22 FH, 24 BH)
- 1 Winner (1 FH)
- 15 Errors, comprising...
- 3 Unforced (2 FH, 1 BH), including 1 runaround BH
- 12 Forced (3 FH, 9 BH)
- Return Rate (46/66) 70%
Tsonga made...
- 28 (15 FH, 13 BH), including 1 runaround FH & 1 return-approach
- 10 Errors, comprising...
- 6 Unforced (1 FH, 5 BH)
- 4 Forced (1 FH, 3 BH)
- Return Rate (28/41) 68%
Break Points
Djokovic 4/13 (7 games)
Tsonga 1/1
Winners (including returns, excluding serves)
Djokovic 15 (9 FH, 4 BH, 2 FHV)
Tsonga 10 (8 FH, 1 BHV, 1 OH)
Djokovic's FHs - 3 cc (1 pass), 1 dtl/inside-out, 2 inside-out (1 return pass), 1 inside-out/dtl at net, 1 inside-in and 1 inside-in/cc
- BHs - 1 cc, 1 dtl, 1 inside-out and 2 drop shot
Tsonga's FHs - 2 cc (1 pass), 1 cc/inside-in, 2 dtl (1 at net) and 3 inside-in (1 at net)
- 1 OH on the bounce from no-man's land
Errors (excluding serves and returns)
Djokovic 12
- 8 Unforced (5 FH, 2 BH, 1 BHV)
- 4 Forced (1 FH, 3 BH)
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 43.8
Tsonga 37
- 26 Unforced (19 FH, 4 BH, 3 BHV)... with 1 FH at net
- 11 Forced (4 FH, 5 BH, 1 FHV, 1 FH1/2V)... with 1 BH running-down-drop-shot at net
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 48.5
(Note 1: All 1/2 volleys refer to such shots played at net. 1/2 volleys played from other parts of the court are included within relevant groundstroke numbers)
(Note 2: the Unforced Error Forcefulness Index is an indicator of how aggressive the average UE was. The numbers presented for these two matches are keyed on 4 categories - 20 defensive, 40 neutral, 50 attacking and 60 winner attempt)
Net Points & Serve-Volley
Djokovic was 10/13 (77%) at net
Tsonga was...
- 7/16 (44%) at net, including...
- 2/4 (50%) serve-volleying, comprising...
- 2/3 (67%) off 1st serve and...
- 0/1 off 2nd serve
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- 1/1 return-approaching
- 1/1 retreated
Match Report
Completely one sided encounter. Djokovic is grooved and clinical while Tsonga, save a few good first serves, is poor on a quickish court
Key stat is Tsonga with 26 UEs (19 of them FHs). Djokovic has 8. Djokovic's winners and errors forced total 26 too
One sidedness is captured in Djokovic winning 62% of the points, while serving just 37% of them
Djokovic has break points in 7/9 return games. And 1 of the games he doesn't also goes to deuce
Meanwhile, he cruises through on serve to remarkable extent. He loses 1 point on service in second set to Tsonga's sole return-approach. And wins 28/29 service points starting towards end of first set to the end
4 breaks by Djoko. Tsonga snatches 1 after going down 2 break to start the match. A game containing 4 of Djoko's match long 8 UEs
And Tsonga? He wins 35 points on serve - and 20 of those are unreturned serves. In other words, when return is made, he wins 15/46 or just 33% points when his serve is returned. That's excluding double faults. Including those, the number falls to 15/49.
Typically, strong serving from Tsonga. He's got 5 aces to Djoko's 3 (though rate at sending them down is about the same), and Djoko is much better at moving to return. Tsonga also with high 24% serves to the body (Djoko has 10%), which are serves that aren't likely to go for aces. 12/15 return errors from Djoko have been marked forced. In short, good serving from Tsonga
And better returning from Djokovic. He silkily strikes balls deep down the middle. There's a clinical, effortlessness to the shots that make 'thumps' or 'whacks' ineffective adjectives to describe Djoko's returns. Easier on the eyes than his norm but just as effective. He reads the serves, most apparent in his getting out the way early against the large lot of body serves to play them without getting cramped
One result is Tsonga winning remarkable (for wrong reasons) 4/25 second serve points. And his is a good second serve in that they're not easy to attack. Not that Djoko 'attacks' them exactly... this is just normal returning for him
It makes Tsonga's returning look even poorer than it is. Tsonga's slow to move for the return and stumped by anything slightly wide. Comes down late on a couple regulation, in swing-zone first serves of decent pace as to barely hit the ball. You'd think they were Karlovic thunderbolts to see Tsonga's return. Similar or even better serves from Tsonga get the easy, down the middle near the baseline treatment from Djokovic when roles are reversed
Unreturned rates though are close - Djoko 32%, Tsonga 29%. And with Tsonga double faulting thrice to Djoko's 0, return rate is even closer. Once return is made, they rally
Solid, clean hitting from Djoko off both sides. And Tsonga doesn't do much right.
He tries to attack with wide FHs or more aggressively still to corners. And misses habitually, early in rallies. Djoko's deep returns make attacking shots difficult and Tsonga is nowhere near good enough to pull off such shots
On both both attacking and winner attempt UEs, Tsonga has 8 and Djoko has 1. No need to strain for Djoko. Good clean hitting, and let Tsonga mess up
Its neutrally that matters are closest, and UEs on that score read Djoko 6, Tsonga 9 (+ 1 defensive UE). No attempt by Tsonga to play neutrally for long - and despite stats, that's wise. Its highly unlikely he can trade groundies with Djoko off either side for long without giving up the errors. Going on reputation, you could say he's smart to keep things on his FH - which is powerful enough to be potentially damaging at least, if still loose and error prone - than BH. The errors come from FH at more than enough of a rate to sink him anyway, but he does have 8 FH winners too - 1 less than Djoko
On his service games, Djoko gets a big lot of unreturneds (as much for Tsonga's sub-par returning as good serving) at 32% with 6 return UEs to 4 FEs on return for Tsonga. Returns that are made leave Djoko in charge, he hits controlled, attacking third balls and often follows it to net. Djoko's 10/13 in forecourt - mostly forcing hard passing errors. Many of his match high 9 FH winners are taken from well in court too.
On return games, Djoko returns as described earlier and Tsonga either strains for an attacking shot or winner attempt against a good, deep ball (and misses) or they rally for a awhile before Tsonga looks to turn to attack (again, usually missing). Getting to net doesn't do him much good. He's 7/16 there and even lower 4/11 just rallying to net. 4 forecourt UEs - poor from so few approaches
Summing up, clean and efficient from Djokovic. He serves decently and attacks in measured way weak returns. Returns extremely well, with seeming ease, striking balls back deep and flat while apparently reading the serve. And in play, keeps ball in play with clean strikes off both sides, changing up off the BH to dtl on occasion particularly well. Save some good power serving, not much that Tsonga does well. Can't keep ball in court from the back, in a hurry to attack against tricky deep balls leading to more errors and missing volleys when he can get up front
Clinical from Djokovic, and poor from Tsonga. More the latter than the former
