The winner of this could be the opponent of Nick Kyrgios should the Australian win his second round match.
Deuce in the seventh game and a hot forehand down the line followed by an ace gave Tsonga a 5-2 advantage.
Two big serves at 30-30 from the Canadian forced Tsonga to serve for the set and he suffered a withering forehand pass from Shapovalov for 30-30. Break point followed to which Tsonga brutality dealt, and proceeded to win the game and set 6-3.
Set three began with a service hold for Shapovalov.
A lazy error at the net and 15-30 for Tsonga. He steadied but a series of brilliant backhands from Shapovalov broke the French serve for 2-0.
A consolidating hold from Denis and 3-0.
Tsonga served well for 1-3 and started with a backhand winner on the next Shapovalov serve - but this was no answer to a couple of Canadian forehands and Shapovalov led 4-1.
A spectacular running forehand helped Denis to break point, and a double fault donated a second break to Shapovalov who now led 5-1.
The Canadian served out the set 6-1 and led 6-3 3-6 6-1 .
Caroline Wozniacki dropped her first set to 103 ranked Jana Fett from Croatia 6-2.
15 year old qualifier Marta Kostyuk from the Ukraine, ranked 522, has defeated wildcard Olivia Rogowska 6-3 7-5.
First game of set four went to the Tsonga serve, and Shapovalov replied in kind.
Kateryna Bondarenko has knocked out Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (15) 6-2 6-3.
Qualifier, Thailand’s Luksika Kumkhum has defeated Belinda Bencic 6-1 6-3.
Pablo Carreno Busta (10) is through to the third round after the retirement of Gilles Simon at 6-2 3-0.
Qualifier Denisa Allertova defeated Shuai Zhang 6-4 7-6(5).
Andreas Seppi defeated Yoshihito Nishioka 6-1 6-3 6-4.
Nikoloz Basilashvili defeated qualifier Ruben Bemelmans 7-5 6-1 6-3.
Kyle Edmund defeated Denis Istomin 6-2 6-2 6-4.
Both Tsonga and Shapovalov held well and 4-4 was reached. A tie break seemed the likely result of this battle.
Tsonga, after a strong game and a 5-4 lead, wanted to break the Canadian serve and level the match.
This pleasure was denied and a love game gave us 5-5.
Tsonga won the next game and again put pressure on Shapovalov to hold service and go to a tie break.
A tie break was confirmed, and despite giving away 14 years of experience, Denis was well in this one.
Tsonga grabbed the early advantage and rode it for 4-1.
Shapovalov had lost the initiative but still had the shots and fought back to 3-5.
Tsonga’s serving however shut the 18 year old out and he levelled things at 3-6 6-3 1-6 7-6(4).
A great match was going to the limit.
Jana Fett led Wozniacki 5-1 in the deciding set - serving for the biggest upset of the tournament so far.
Gilles Muller (23) won in five sets over Malek Jaziri 7-5 6-4 6-7(5) 3-6 6-2
Tsonga down two break points in the second game of the decider pulled out some great shots to save those, but poor choice at the net set up another chance for Shapovalov which he took to lead 2-0.
Shapovalov also saved two break points in the third game, but he managed to win the game and extend the advantage to 3-0.
Tsonga survived a break point so avoiding going down a double break. 1-3.
Now he had Shapovalov in trouble at 15-30. Strong serving lifted the Canadian out of strife and to a 4-1 lead.
Wozniacki has manufactured the great escape, coming from 1-5 and two match points away from defeat, to winning six games in succession to win the match against a shattered Jana Fett. 3-6 6-2 7-5.
A couple of service holds and 5-2 for Shapovalov.
A show of brilliance from Denis had Tsonga at 30-30 and in peril.
Tsonga responded at once with a sharp volley winner but then an error sent it to deuce.
A second deuce and Jo-Wilfried hanging by a thread.
He survived but not enough to prevent Shapovalov serving for the match.
The first two points were French but not the third - a double fault and two break points, the first converted with a backhand volley winner. 4-5.
Marin Cilic (6) defeated João Sousa 6-1 7-5 6-2.
Magdaléna Rybáriková defeated Kirsten Flipkens 6-4 0-6 6-2.
Petra Martic defeated Irina-Camelia Begu 6-4 7-6(3)
Tsonga was now on top and after levelling at 5-5 he broke and was suddenly serving for the match.
An ace brought up match point and a volley won the encounter
3-6 6-3 1-6 7-6(4) 7-5.
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