Points won by each set: [ 30-29, 27-17, 37-31 ]
Points won directly behind the serve:
29 % Agassi – 24 of 81
18 % Clement – 17 of 90
Before the final it wasn’t so obvious that Agassi [6] would win easily. He had lost his two previous matches to Clement [18]. The Frenchman actually played pretty good match, simply Agassi was exceptionally efficient; he struck 11 winners fewer which is quite unusual for a winner with 10 games won more. So the easy conclusion is that he turned Clement into an error machine. In the longest 3rd set, Clement was broken to open after 5 deuces, and wasted 4 break points in game no. 5 (six deuces)… They met six times (Agassi 4-2), four of those matches occurred at Slams.
Agassi’s route to his 46th title:
1 Jiri Vanek 6-0, 7-5, 6-3
2 Paul Goldstein 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
3 David Prinosil 7-6(11), 5-0 ret.
4 Andrew Ilie 6-7(1), 6-3, 6-0, 6-3
Q Todd Martin 7-5, 6-3, 6-4
S Patrick Rafter 7-5, 2-6, 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-3
W Arnaud Clement 6-4, 6-2, 6-2