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Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat second seed Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6 (3) to win the Rogers Cup on Sunday and claim his first ATP Tour title of the season.

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ended an eighteen-month wait for a trophy when he beat Roger Federer in the final of the Rogers Cup.

French 13th seed Tsonga hit 11 aces and 26 winners to claim victory in Sunday's final 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) while Federer, two days after his 33rd birthday, was undone by 37 unforced errors.

The 29-year-old Tsonga dropped just one set all week as he knocked out world number one Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Grigor Dmitrov en route to the final.

Both men stayed level in the opening set, which went by without a break point until the 12th game when Federer returned wide.

That error yielded a set point for Tsonga, who took immediate advantage by forcing another Federer miscue to claim the set after 43 minutes.

In the second, Federer saved a match point in the 10th game, but Tsonga prevailed in the tiebreak, earning victory on the first of three match points from a Federer backhand error.

The Rogers Cup victory means the Frenchman will move into the top-10 in the latest ATP world rankings.

It was also Tsonga's first ATP Tour title of the season and eleventh overall.