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Art Spander in Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Roger Federer, Wimbledon, articles, tennis

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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