Not even consistency. The myth that Ferrer is more consistent than Tsonga is, well, a myth. All it takes is for Tsonga to live up to his seeding in Madrid and he will have more ranking points than Ferrer ever had at any point of his career, meaning a more consistent year than Ferrer ever had.
Hate to say this but Tsonga is better (on any type of hard court or grass; Ferrer does win easily on clay). He's the one who actually threatens the elite, whereas Ferrer plays them close but can't win the big points.
Now which one is easier to root for? Easily Ferrer because Tsonga's brain isn't always functioning on the court. But even with that in mind, I know Tsonga is better and has had the results to back that.
Murray was NEVER losing to Ferrer at the Australian Open. He came close to going 2 sets down but when he needed to up his game, he did such as in the tiebreaks. Ferrer is never reaching a GS final or winning a MS title.
TSonga is superior clerly, if you are not blind you must see it. Ferrer is more consistent guy , but if we are talking game-wise better player is Tsonga-Ferer is better on clay what is obvious, but even on slow HC i would favor Tsonga, on grass, fast HC and indoors Tsonga is clearly better.
Ferrer is hard-worker,consistent guy, decent top 10 but that´s it, he was 5th recently just because Delpo was out for so long, Soderling is out and now even Tsonga-joke on clay is ahead of him in ranking... that´s telling us, even Berdych will go past him i believe.
Slam wise, Tsonga is always threat besides RG to take down anyone if he is playing good, but by Ferrer you know he is not making more than SF-thanks to draw too, he is beating guys he is suppose to beat, but you never expect from him to beat higher ranked guys at slams -Murray on clay was only good match-up for him, but they haven´t played on clay some time so maybe even that last thing is over and Murray maybe will beat him next time on clay.
are you kidding me? the fact that Tsonga can't keep a high form for more than 1 or 2 tournaments straight alone makes him lose this one.
Tsonga at his best is great but when does that happen? Every year or 2 sporadically? David's consistancy means he is a much greater player. Even if you compare their games, Ferrer's average level is far better than Tsonga's.
I'd take a steady drive over a slow one that gains some pace down a hill occasionally, any day
Tsonga is much better. In 2008 he looked like a future multiple slam winner. Many experts including the infamous Wilander saw him as a new top star and possible world number 1. Injury derailed Tsonga. Before that everything was pointing upwards
Ferrer has never been close to those heights. He is 30 now and has yet to reach a GS final. Every tournament where he goes deep it mostly shows a lack of players with weapons that can play attacking tennis without turning to UE machines.
Ferrer is a excellent gatekeeper that always will require a quality player to beat and a player of the very highest quality to have a good H2H against (and a player of surreal quality to never lost at all vs him, like Federer)
Tsonga on the other hand has weapons deluxe. Powerful serve, deadly net game, brutal groundstroke power. His problem is that he hits too many errors on bad days just like other prime offensive players with a powergame like Berdych/Soderling/JMDP
this is one of them how do you define better ones. ferrer is better when it comes to being consistent and having the steadier career. tsonga has the higher peaks and probably slightly more effective game when he is firing, but he also has lower lows and cant touch the consistency of ferrer.
Kinder Bueno won a MS not Ferru but Ferru is more constant even if he's an underrachiever : with the talent + fitness he has, he sould have won at least one MS ans reach a GS's final
Still the same as when the thread was started, nothing has changed - Tsonga by far the superior player. Bump this when Ferrer wins a tournament beating top players, until then spare the people who voted Ferrer the embarassment of being exposed and/or the realization that they chose the wrong sport to folow.
Every user who voted for Ferrer must have a terrible tennis knowledge, really. Tsonga is by far better in every regard - clay, consistency, vulturing and luck aside.
Matches played on tour :
Ferrer - 857
Tsonga - 443
They only played once on hard though, back then only Federer beat Ferrer in the 2012 indoors season although Jo was exhausted and in a bad form. I'd take peak Tsonga over peak Ferrer any day off clay.
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