Injury worry for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga after shock Queen’s exit

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is a doubt for Wimbledon after he suffered a suspected broken finger during his shock defeat to Ivan Dodig at the AEGON Championships.

The world No 5, who made the last four at SW19 last year, bowed out of the Wimbledon warm-up competition at Queen’s with a 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 6-7 (5/7) loss to world No 69 Dodig.

His disappointment was added to by the news that he may have broken the little finger on his right hand after slipping in the sixth game of the third set.

“I think it’s serious,” said Tsonga, who had his hand placed in an ice-bag during his post-match press conference. “I will have a scan, but it sounds very bad. I felt like I broke something or I strained it when I fell. It’s only a finger but it’s tough because I have to play with my hand. At the moment I don’t know what is it, but I will stay positive and I will see.”

The Murray family suffered yet more disappointment as older sibling Jamie was knocked out of the doubles tournament. Andy Murray exited the singles after a three-set defeat to Nicolas Mahut on Wednesday and Jamie, partnered by Marcos Baghdatis, bowed out of the doubles after a 3-6, 6-7 (5/7) second-round defeat to fifth seeded pair Mahes Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna on court two.

The Indian pair, seeded fifth, took one of two break points available in the sixth game and went on to clinch the first set. Both teams broke each other in the second set before the game headed to a tie-break. The early signs looked good as Murray and Baghdatis went a mini-break up, but the favourites broke back twice to clinch the game and set up a possible quarter-final against first seeds Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor.

Earlier, Scotland’s Colin Fleming and English partner Ross Hutchins beat Belgian duo Steve Darcis and Olivier Rochus.

Fleming and Hutchins broke Darcis and Rochus twice early in the first set. The Belgians hit back, but the home-grown duo broke again to claim the set 6-2 after just 27 minutes. The Britons, seeded sixth, broke early in the second but a weak service game allowed their opponents back in to put the set on serve.

The Belgians then wilted, however, losing three straight games to hand Hutchins and Fleming a 6-2, 6-2 win.