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1. Voo de Mar says:

   February 20, 2021 at 10:06 pm

   5 hours 53 minutes – the longest Grand Slam final in history (before no-one played 5 hours)

   Points won by each set: | 43-49, 38-34, 32-16, 42-42, 38-35 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   22 % Djokovic – 38 of 166
   27 % Nadal – 56 of 203

   The only game in which Nadal had a break point, but lost that game, happened when Djokovic was serving for the championships at 6:5 in the 5th set. The Serb was four points away from defeat, he was five points away from defeat in the semifinal when he defeated Murray 7-5 in the 5th set as well. Description of the final

   Djokovic’s route to his 5th major title:
   1 Paolo Lorenzi 6-2, 6-0, 6-0
   2 Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-2, 6-1
   3 Nicolas Mahut 6-0, 6-1, 6-1
   4 Lleyton Hewitt 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
   Q David Ferrer 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-1
   S Andy Murray 6-3, 3-6, 6-7(4), 6-1, 7-5
   W Rafael Nadal 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7(5), 7-5

   Serve & volley: Djokovic 1/2, Nadal 0/1

   Nadal played a volley behind the serve from the back of the court
   

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   February 21, 2023 at 10:00 pm

   This final mainly contributed to modification of the ‘time between points’ rule. Despite 20 seconds allowed, Djokovic needed 33 seconds on average, Nadal 30 seconds. Since the beginning of the year 2013, umpires were more strict in enforcing the rule, since 2018 there’s a time-clock which counts down 25 seconds in each tournament

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