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1. Voo de Mar says:

   July 23, 2020 at 5:01 pm

   Points won by each set: 174-178 | 49-50, 28-23, 27-36, 30-34, 40-35 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   38 % Rosset – 69 of 177 (34 unreturned)
   18 % Arrese – 32 of 175 (29 unreturned)

   In that 5-hour 3-minute final, Rosset struck 35 aces [15 (3 in TB), 1, 4, 6, 9] – over many years it was a clay-court record. The opener was quite peculiar given the wasted chances to break (especially on clay): the Swiss survived four games facing 7 break points in total (Arrese withstood 4 BPs in two games) before finally breaking in the first game of the 2nd set. About the 3rd set decided its middle section – Arrese held twice with the help of 4 deuces in each game, breaking Rosset between. There was 4-all in the 4th set when the Spaniard took two straight games. In the decider Rosset led 4:1* (deuce) – the only ‘deuce’ in that set before the last game of the match. Arrese levelled at 4-all, but Rosset put himself in front thrice with an abundance of unreturned serves. In the last game, Arrese led 40/15, but Rosset got to ‘deuce’ thanks to errors, and won the last two points with forehand winners. “A couple of times, I wanted to go to the locker room and have a couple of Cokes,” Rosset said, “but then, I knew if I did that, everybody would want to kill me. You can’t quit just because you are tired.” The 22-year-old Rosset was ranked 44 at the time, while the 28-year-old Arrese No. 30. Already reaching the semifinals meant a huge achievement for them both! Two years later they face each other in Nice, another clay-court thriller, this time 3 hours, and Rosset wins 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(6) trailing 1:6 in the tie-break!

   [SUI] Rosset’s route to the Gold medal:
   1 Karim Alami [MOR] 6-2, 4-6, 2-1 ret.
   2 Wayne Ferreira [RSA] 6-4, 6-0, 6-2
   3 Jim Courier [USA] 6-4, 6-2, 6-1
   Q Emilio Sanchez [ESP] 6-4, 7-6(2), 3-6, 7-6(9)
   S Goran Ivanisevic [CRO] 6-3, 7-5, 6-2
   W Jordi Arrese [ESP] 7-6(2), 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 8-6
   

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   July 31, 2024 at 9:36 pm

   Bronze medals for Andrey Cherkasov and Goran Ivanisevic, who as the only player in history, managed to win four consecutive five-setters… to guarantee a medal for himself; they both represented newly created nations: CIS – the short-living state between USSR and Russia, and Croatia respectively

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