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1. Voo de Mar says:

   March 7, 2016 at 10:15 pm

   Points won by each set: | 23-33, 35-28, 24-12 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   32 % Berdych – 27 of 84
   29 % Cilic – 21 of 71

   Perhaps the best week in Berdych’s career given valuable players he defeated and the style in which he did it – losing just three games in back-to-back matches against Kohlschreiber [52] & Verdasco [23] it’s really impressive. In the final, the Czech [10] faced two adv. mini-match points at 4-all in the 2nd set, saved them both with service winners (out-wide & down the T). In the final set he won five straight games from 1-all against the frustrated Cilic [25]. Berdych defeated Cilic for the second time in Asia saving mini-match points, previously he saved five beating the Croat 7-6 3-6 6-4 in Shanghai ’09… They will play another final against each other in Rotterdam ’14, with Berdych a winner again, that time easier.

   Berdych’s route to his 6th title:
   1 Jurgen Melzer 7-5, 7-5
   2 Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2, 6-0
   Q Fernando Verdasco 6-1, 6-0
   S Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
   W Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-4, 6-1

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