Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has claimed that he will have nothing to lose when he faces Andy Murray in the semi-finals of Wimbledon.

Tsonga, normally a crowd favourite, acknowledges that he will have a different part to play when he comes up against Murray in his second consecutive semi-final at SW19.

The Frenchman will be playing through the pain barrier, as he has been all tournament after suffering a finger injury at Queen's last month.

"It will be a totally different match against Andy. It'll be madness. Almost all the crowd will be with him. I will have nothing to lose, the pressure will be on him. We're at a new stage of the tournament now. I'm going to try to play it with a light heart," said Tsonga.

"I thought I wasn't even going to be able to play here. When I was trying to train at home on the Thursday before the tournament, I wasn't able to play a backhand.

"The doctors assured me that it wouldn't be possible to aggravate it so I told myself that I'd go, I'd take the chance. If it doesn't happen for me, it doesn't happen. If it works, all the better. I'm still playing under anti-inflammatories and with pain but I think it's been worth it."

Neither Tsonga nor Murray have ever reached a Wimbledon final or won a Grand Slam. The winner of their match will face either Novak Djokovic or Roger Federer in the final.