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Points won by each set: [ 40-33, 32-24, 27-20 ]
Points won directly on serve:
54 % Sampras – 40 of 74
25 % Woodruff – 26 of 102

[56] Woodruff’s lone Grand Slam quarter-final. He was a heavy underdog, yet played very good tennis in the 1st set. He early led with a break, at *5:6 (15/40) he saved the double set point with two excellent passes, then had two game points, but made two casual forehand errors and lost the set – it was the crucial moment. Since then Sampras [3] completely controlled the rest of the match for more than an hour improving his open backhand.

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