Vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Quarter-final 2012
Tsonga, playing his first-ever quarter-final at his home Grand Slam, played Djokovic relatively early on at Roland Garros that year. He had crumbled quickly in the first set, losing 1-6 in an embarrassing 20-minute set loss.
The tall Frenchman suddenly found a resurgence in energy to successively take the next two sets 7-5 – this time putting Djokovic on the back foot instead.
It was then that Djokovic pulled out all the stops to take the fourth set to a final point tiebreaker, by which point he had also broken Tsonga’s momentum. That left him free to finish the final set off 6-1 and survive a five-set scare from the French player
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