LONDON — Britain's double grand slam champion Andy Murray defeated France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to level their Davis Cup quarter-final tie at 1-1 after Gilles Simon beat James Ward earlier on Friday.
At the picturesque Queen's Club in west London, Murray, ranked third in the world, beat the popular and hard-hitting Frenchman 7-5 7-6(10) 6-2 to restore parity after Ward had been well beaten in the opening rubber.
After two evenly-contested sets in front of an atmospheric crowd, Murray broke Tsonga twice in the third to complete victory.
"What Andy just did was exceptional. There was a lot of pressure on him," Britain's captain Leon Smith told the BBC.