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1. Voo de Mar says:

   November 3, 2020 at 2:56 am

   Points won by each set: | 46-47, 26-31, 29-33, 33-25, 32-26 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   33 % Forget – 55 of 165
   31 % Sampras – 51 of 163

   The time-duration: 3 hours 43 minutes. Only twice in 1991 occurred that a player served at least 30 aces (Forget struck 8, 6, 6, 5, 5 respectively in sets). The 26-year-old Frenchman [6] was considered as the best server at the time given his first delivery (his second serve was rather conservative all the time). He saved two set points in the 1st set tie-break (6:7 and 7:8*) to win it 11/9. He also saved a mini-match point at 4-all in the 4th set after the longest rally of the match (he passed Sampras with his backhand in a 21-stroke rally) earlier trailing *1:3 in that set. Forget earned $270,000 for the biggest victory in his career as far as his singles career is concerned. “It was a very unusual match, especially for a final,” said Forget, “There were moments when we went down and then up again. I don’t know if I will play again in these conditions, but I have done it once.” Sampras [7] lost three matches to Forget in the second half of 1991, those defeats certainly taught him how to deal with a left-handed serve which would help a lot facing Ivanisevic in the future.

   Forget’s route to his 9th title (2nd Masters 1K):
   2 Patrick McEnroe 6-3, 6-2
   3 Derrick Rostagno 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
   Q Omar Camporese 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
   S Jonas Svensson 7-5, 6-4
   W Pete Sampras 7-6(9), 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4

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