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VIDEO: Tsonga tracks down lob, hits insane turnaround winner to save set point

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has long been one of the game's greatest showmen, and he gave the fans in Melbourne some show during his third-round Aussie Open match against French countryman Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Up a set but facing set point in the second, the world No. 10 got hung up at the net and lobbed by Herbert. Watching the set literally bounce away from him, Tsonga did a few quick mental calculations, ran down the lob, and whacked this blind, turnaround, crosscourt backhand.

Cork Gaines's post on Vine

Tsonga would go on to hold, and eventually take the second set in a tiebreaker en route to a straight-sets win.

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