RealClearSports: Tsonga Ready for His Biggest Moment

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By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

WIMBLEDON, England -- A door closes, and another opens. Change is the constant in sport, indeed in life. The familiar merges with the unknown, forcing us to consider the future even as we wistfully think about the past.

Tennis has changed. Wimbledon has changed. Roger Federer exits for a second straight year after a quarterfinal, and we wonder once more whether his time has passed.

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Yahoo! Sports: Federer in denial after his shocking collapse

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By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange

WIMBLEDON, England — It wasn't as much what happened, Roger Federer losing at Wimbledon, but the way it happened — Roger Federer for the first time in his career defeated after he had taken the first two sets of a match in a Grand Slam tournament.

Unprecedented. Never before in 178 Slams. Or as the delightfully disbelieving young man who stunned Federer, indeed stunned all of tennis, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, would sigh, "Unbelievable."

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