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Sports pictures of the year
From a nail-biting pass at Superbowl XLIII to a bloody WBO World Welterwight fight, here's a look at the best sports photos of 2009. Slideshow
Del Potro downs error-strewn Tsonga in Shanghai
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 7-6 to keep his Masters Cup hopes alive and leave the Frenchman on the brink of elimination from the $4.45 million season finale Tuesday.
The lanky 20-year-old seventh seed, who lost his opening group match to Serbia's Novak Djokovic, broke Tsonga's first service game and always looked the more likely to win a tight contest.
Sixth seed Tsonga served up 17 aces and rattled home 42 winners but that good work was undone by 38 unforced errors, the last of which came when he put the ball in the net to end the second tiebreak.
The 23-year-old lost his opener to Nikolay Davydenko and will be out of contention for a place in the semi-finals if Djokovic beats the Russian in the second Gold Group match later Tuesday.
(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney; Editing by Karolos Grohmann)
