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1. Voo de Mar says:

   July 27, 2025 at 11:59 pm

   Points won by each set: [ 38-44, 18:19 ☆]
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   27 % Cilic – 17 of 61
   29 % Nalbandian – 17 of 58

   One of the most bizarre, unexpected endings of a tennis match. It was a calm final with tennis of good quality, and suddenly at 3-all in the 2nd set something inexplicable happened to Nalbandian’s mind. He had the final under control, but threw his racquet twice losing successive points, and when he lost the game being broken at 15, he kicked an advertisement close to the tramelines – he did it so awkwardly that he hurt a shinbone of a linesman (bleeding). A supervisor came on court and after a brief chat with Nalbandian [39] & chair umpire Fergus Murphy, decided to disqualify the Argentine player, who was trying to win his first grass-court title at the age of 30. “Sometimes I make a mistake I agree with,” he said. “It’s a tough moment to end a final like that but sometimes we feel so much pressure from the ATP playing so many tournaments.” Nalbandian had been already defaulted for similarly stupid behavior… also at 4:3 score, but in the first set of his first round match in Vina del Mar 2002 (vs. Flavio Saretta).

   Cilic’s [25] route to his 7th title:
   2 Matthew Ebden 6-2, 6-1
   3 Lukas Rosol 7-6(3), 6-2
   Q Yen-Hsun Lu 6-4, 2-0 ret.
   S Sam Querrey 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
   W David Nalbandian 6-7(3), *4-3 def.

   ☆ It’s the second disqualification in the main-level finals after Melbourne 1981, when Peter McNamara got the trophy at 6-4, 1-6, *5-5 when Vitas Gerulaitis refused to continue disagreeing with a decision of chair-umpire thanks to which McNamara broke back as Gerulaitis had served for the title.

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