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Summary Roger Federer won a record sixth ATP World Tour Finals title with victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Roger Federer held off a resilient Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Sunday to win a record sixth ATP World Tour Finals title with a 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-3 victory at the season-ending tournament.Federer failed to serve out the match at 5-4 in the second set and then wasted a match point in the tiebreaker as Tsonga threatened to stage another improbable comeback against the former No. 1.Tsonga became the first player to rally from a two-set deficit to beat Federer in a Grand Slam tournament in this years Wimbledon quarterfinals, but the hard-serving Frenchman couldnt pull off another surprise this time.Playing in his 100th career final, Federer broke for a 5-3 lead in the decider and served out the match to love, sealing his 70th career title with an easy volley.The victory means Federer surpasses Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras, who both won five titles at the season-ending event for the worlds top eight players, previously known as the Masters Cup.The Swiss former No. 1 has not lost a match since the U.S. Open semifinals, and finished the year with a 17-match winning streak following titles in Basel and Paris before coming to London.The capacity crowd included Pippa Middleton, Cristiano Ronaldo and London Mayor Boris Johnson who was initially cheered when showed on the big screen but received boos when he and his party were late to return to their seats after a changeover, holding up play as Tsonga was about to serve at 2-1 in the third set.It was the third Sunday in a row that featured a meeting between these two players, as Federer beat Tsonga in the Paris final two weeks ago and again in their first round-robin match in London last weekend.
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