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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 11, 2020 at 6:54 pm

   Points won by each set: | 32-19, 34-25, 40-33 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   17 % Nadal – 15 of 84
   6 % Djokovic – 6 of 99

   Their 9th major final and Nadal [2] leads 5:4 afterwards. Djokovic [1] began the first indoor French Open final in something I’d call his “90% mode”. He was serving 1st & 2nd serve with the speed below his standards and instead of physically demanding exchanges (his BH vs Nadal’s FH), so characteristic for their meetings, he was overusing BH drop-shots. It could have easily been 2:3*, but it was 0:5* instead (8 deuces in 4 games). From the beginning of the 2nd set to the end, Djokovic was playing in his “100% mode”, and it was enough to make the things balanced only in the 3rd set when he improved from 2:3* (deuce) to 4:3. At 4-all he saved a mini-match point with the help of a 186 kph second serve, but Nadal serving to stay in the set, held at “15”, broke in the following game (Djokovic’s double fault on break point – without an increased risk that time) and served the championship out without any troubles, finishing it with an ace out-wide on his first match point.

   Serve & volley: Nadal 1/1, Djokovic 1/1
   Dropshots: Nadal 3/5, Djokovic 13/29

   Nadal’s route to his 86th title (record-tying 20th Slam):
   1 Egor Gerasimov 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
   2 Mackenzie McDonald 6-1, 6-0, 6-3
   3 Stefano Travaglia 6-1, 6-4, 6-0
   4 Sebastian Korda 6-1, 6-1, 6-2
   Q Jannik Sinner 7-6(4), 6-4, 6-1
   S Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-3, 7-6(0)
   W Novak Djokovic 6-0, 6-2, 7-5

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