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Chile's Fernando Gonzalez battered Jo-Wilfried Tsonga into submission to reach the quarter-final of the US Open for the second time on Wednesday, winning a high octane slug-fest 3-6 6-3 7-6 6-4.
The Louis Armstrong crowd were treated to a furious contest between two of the sport's most entertaining characters, with clean winners streaking off the strings of both players.
Gonzalez, the 11th seed, was giving away five years and four seedings positions to his French opponent but it was the 29-year-old who proved the more durable as his ferocious forehand punched holes in Frenchman Tsonga's defences.
The Santiago master-blaster, a semi-finalist at the French Open this year, will face either Spain's Rafael Nadal or Gael Monfils of France in his first quarter-final at Flushing Meadows since 2002.
