The first set was decided in favor of the Spaniard in sudden death · Tsonga rallied and swept the next two with a 6-4, 6-1
Rafael Nadal was unable to qualify for the semifinals of the Queen `s, having lost (6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-1) with Frenchman Tsonga.
The Spaniard, who struggled to squeeze into the top eight against Stepanek, blamed fatigue and was traced to the nineteenth racket on the planet. The Frenchman punished since the beginning of the Balearic with their service, a whole slab to the tournament champion in 2008, and ended up bowing in just over two hours.
The first set, which had to be postponed the start by rain, was extremely even. Both contenders service safeguarded against all odds. Especially required was that of Le Mans in the eleventh game, having put on the ropes to the recent won Roland Garros in the sixth.
A threatened the break 0-40 on the serve of the Gaul, but the Le Mans again make your 'first' a gun and saved the last ballot with two 'aces', for a total of 16 in the opening set, which was decided in sudden death where the Spaniard was thinner.
Far off to be at a disadvantage, the fifth-seeded of the tournament began with a desire for revenge, another air over the grass in London. A 'break' in the first game of the second set as Nadal warned that he would suffer in the next exchange, an ordeal.
Although the Spaniard was able to put the tables quickly, a new rupture of French in the ninth game put things on a plate to force the third set, which not long in coming, because then closed the set.
The ghosts that have accompanied all season Nadal again fly the skies of the capital. Crestfallen, without power and at the mercy of his rival, quite the opposite of what offered a week ago on Paris, he most city of light for anyone.
Tsonga, who had won only until this Friday when the winner of ten 'great', the work was not to waste a chance like that in front of him and pressed the accelerator, causing more blood in the wound of a head Nadal and at Wimbledon.
Tsonga will seek his second final of the season after losing in Rotterdam, against Britain's James Ward, 216 of world and invited by the organization of the tournament, which took two hours and seven minutes to break the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino (6-2, 6-7 (14) and 6-4).