It’s New Year’s Eve and as many get ready to write their list of resolutions, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is not shying away from setting himself some high targets for 2017.
A mixed 2016 saw Tsonga once again struggle with injuries that came at brutal timings, forcing him to retire from two of the four grand slams. He showed some positive signs of recovering his form towards the end of the year but ended the season ranked outside the top-10.
So it comes as no surprise that Tsonga is hoping for consistency more than anything else in 2017.
“To be honest, I have targets every year but every year it’s difficult to reach them,” Tsonga told reporters in Abu Dhabi Friday.
“But anyway I set them high to go as far as possible. The target for me in the short-term is to be in the top-10 and be consistently in the top-10; to be able to play against those guys every week and have an opportunity to win against them and go for it in big tournaments.”
Back in Abu Dhabi for his fourth Mubadala World Tennis Championship, the world No12 rebounded from his Thursday defeat to David Goffin by overcoming Tomas Berdych 6-7 (5), 6-3, 10-3 Friday.