Twelve months after retiring from the tournament with a knee injury, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga returns to Montpellier on the first day of the week when he takes on a Frenchman friend, Hugo Humbert in the first round.

Tsonga was seen in the background for the space at last year's end when he brought Lucas Puya 6-1 5-3, but, to his chagrin, he happened to disown the match because his knee difficulties bumped again. Tsonga missed 2 points in the match because Puye stayed in the match for 3-5 in the second set and after that failed to serve the match in the proper this Irge, before retiring with the knee task. During this time, no one thought, actually what he won't be another 7 months.

In April, Tsonga underwent knee surgery, and initial monitoring was hoping, in fact, that he would return in a timely manner for part of the clay court season, but the recovery took longer than expected, and he didn't play again until September. When he eventually returned to the Moselle Open in Metz, he didn't strangely fight to get back to work, and lost 5 of his own 6 matches the rest of the year, covering the Davis Cup rubber across from Marin Cilic, because France collapsed in Croatia in the end.

The 33-year-old gave considerably less than any other start to a Fresh year has begun with a semifinal in Brisbane with victory over Thanasi Kokkinakis, Taro Daniel and Alex De Minaur (he lost to Daniel Medvedev) and made it in the 2nd round of the Australian Open, where he pulled a terrible Martin Klizan, before than to fall into the universe No. 1 Novak Djokovic.

Universe 210 will want to save this promising form in Montpellier, where it will start opposite the ascending Humbert on the first day of the week.

Specified just from young people, in order to look in 2019, Humbert won only once the match on tour in this season in front of Pablo Cuevas in Oakland, while he lost the opening matches of the round yasutake Uchiyama and Jeremy Chardy in Brisbane and Australian Open in accordance with this. He was beaten by Philipp Kohlschreiber in the second round in Auckland.

Humbert rushed to the Challenger tour last week and made it to the semifinals in camper, before that than to fall for Daniel Evans. Just in the Challenger tour, he scored points last season, winning titles in Segovia, Ortisei Andria and making an end in Gatineau, Granby and Cassie in order to add to the 3 upcoming titles he won earlier in the year. In the main round he qualified for the US Open, beating his friend Collin Altamirano in the first round, before falling on Stan Wawrinka in 4 sets, while he still arranged 2 round in the Mets later in the season, losing to Nikoloz Basilashvili later victory over Bernard Tomic in the first round.

The 20-year-old Lefty, who lent 378th space at the start of last season, is in real time located in 91st space in the world, and any victory at the level of the tour that he records will further move this rating, in fact that somewhat higher, and even more consolidate his confidence, because he continues his trip through the ranks of ATP.

But on the first day of the week he has a tough match, like the first time he plays Tsonga.

Being left-handed, Humbert is obliged to be able to receive subsequently more weak blow behind Tsonga, but the senior Frenchman spent career, dealing with this danger, and is obliged to be quite skillful to resist it. Tsonga is famously even in Australia, and returning on a vicious strict court, where he excelled in the past, he owes be very guaranteeing for own younger compatriot.