LILLE, France: A record crowd of 27,432 for an official tennis match and on French soil, but it all fell a bit flat for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

The French number one, usually hugely popular with his own public, crashed 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the hands of Stan Wawrinka in the first of the rubbers of the Davis Cup final on Friday.

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