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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga cruelled by shoulder injury as he farewells tennis and Roland Garros in tears

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga kissed the clay as he finished up at Roland Garros for the final time. (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes)

If he came along at another time, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga could have won more titles.

If his body didn't fail him so many times, the same could be true. So, it was with the cruellest stroke of irony that, as he looked set to deliver one final defiant performance, his shoulder fell apart and he finished his career in tears on the Paris clay.

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