3 Nov 2008

Tsonga wins in Paris

8:21 am on 3 November 2008

The French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has won his maiden Masters Series event after beating Argentine David Nalbandian in 3 sets in the final of the Paris Masters.

The result gives the 23-year-old the last spot in next week's season ending Masters Cup in Shanghai.

He joins Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Nikolay Davydenko, Andy Roddick and Juan Martin del Potro as the players who qualified for the Masters Cup.

Australian Open runner-up Tsonga, whose only previous title was the Bangkok Open in September, will climb to world number seven when the ATP release their rankings later today.

With compatriot Gilles Simon moving up to ninth, France will have two players in the top 10 for the first time since Yannick Noah and Henri Leconte in 1988.