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WIMBLEDON

June 24, 2009

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

LONDON, ENGLAND

J. TSONGA/S. Bolelli
(Walkover)

Q. Today was a walkover. What do you think? Are you shocked or were you prepared for it?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: No, I'm sad for him because he's maybe injured. I don't know what he had for the moment. But I'm happy to be at the third round. That's it.

Q. Does that shake your plans for Wimbledon?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: I think anyway it's good for me because I played a long match for the first round, and now I don't play for the second, so I will be ready for the third.

Q. Do you know that in Congo-Kinshasa they are rooting for you? Are you aware?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: Yeah, I know, of course.

Q. Have you been back since the last time you went to the Congo?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: No.

Q. Any plans to go back?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: Not for the moment, but yeah, I will go there for sure.

Q. What does Wimbledon mean to you?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: Wimbledon means a Grand Slam tournament, a tournament with a lot of history.

Q. What do you think of the significance of Federer for you? What's so special about Federer for you?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: Maybe how he's relaxed on the court.

Q. You are from a family of sportsmen.
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: Yeah, only my father, because my mother did nothing.

Q. And your brother?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: And my brother plays but my sister nothing.

Q. And your cousin is a sports person in New Castle?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: No, and I'm not originally from Congo-Kinshasa. I'm from the other side of the river.

Q. So how did you get into sports, your family push you or you like to play?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: No, it was just natural. When I was a kid I was all the time outside of the house, and that's it.

Q. Is your family here with you now?
JO-WILFRIED TSONGA: My brother.

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