ツォンガ

ベルシー２００４の後、本当にずっと故障続きだったようです。
２００５年に復帰したものの、２年間は年８大会までしかプレイしてはいけなかったとか。

でも、この困難な時期が彼の欠点だったメンタルを強くし、オトナの判断ができるようになったらしい。春のチャレンジャーで連戦連勝だった彼にRGのWCがオファーされたそうだけど、体のことを考えて断ったんだって。

なーるほど。人に歴史あり。

clipped from sport.scotsman.com He was, in fact, at the doctors, asking for attention to a series of injuries that robbed him of the first three years of his career. It all began with a herniated disc in his back and was followed up with shoulder and knee problems. When the medics finally cleared him to get back to work, Tsonga was still restricted to playing just eight tournaments a year in 2005 and 2006. When he was able to play, he tended to win, but he was not able to play enough to break out of the challenger circuit. As it turned out, those two years were the making of Tsonga. As a junior, he was regarded as a man of immense talent but very little brain. Tsonga turned down the wild card offered to him this year by the French Tennis Federation. He had just won four challenger titles in five attempts and he was tired. After all his injury problems, he was not sure that his body could withstand best of five set matches on clay at Roland Garros, so he politely refused.