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1. Voo de Mar says:

   September 24, 2020 at 3:22 pm

   Points won by each set: | 30-20, 28-36, 43-36 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   41 % Isner – 41 of 100
   31 % Clement – 29 of 92

   The 24-year-old Isner [33] clinched his maiden title at the Heineken Open after a 2-hour 19-minute encounter against 8 years older Clement [67] for whom it was 11th and last final (4-7 record). “I would rather win that game like I did than if I had won it to love,” said Isner about his last service game. “It gave me a lot of confidence to play pretty much a flawless tie-break.” Clement had a match point in that game, but Isner erased it with an overhead behind a serve-and-volley 5-stroke action.

   Isner’s route to his maiden title (43rd main-level event):
   1 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-2
   2 Juan Monaco 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
   Q Tommy Robredo 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-4
   S Albert Montanes 6-2, 7-6(5)
   W Arnaud Clement 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(2) – 1 m.p.

   # Isner was four points away from defeat in the first round & trailed *1:3 in the 3rd set of his quarter-final match

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