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1. Voo de Mar says:

   January 30, 2024 at 11:13 am

   Points won by each set: | 29-21, 33-23, 32-25 |
   Points won directly on serve:
   30 % Sampras – 26 of 85
   21 % Courier – 17 of 78

   An emphatic 2-hour 2-minute display of Sampras [1] who snapped [3] Courier’s 18-match winning streak in Melbourne! Sampras denied break points at 1:2 & 3:4 in the 3rd set breaking at 2:1 in the opener and 4-all in the following two sets. His advantage was bigger than the scoreline suggests. Someone described Sampras’ performance as “tennis of the 21st Century”. With that victory Sampras actually stipulated his dominance in the 90s; no doubt left that everything what Courier could do well, Sampras would simply do much better. The serve marked the biggest difference between them, there was a period across the last two sets when Sampras quite effortlessly won 20 points in a row on serve!

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