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1. Voo de Mar says:

   December 18, 2021 at 12:34 am

   Total points: 106-83 | 31-18, 34-30, 41-35 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   31 % McEnroe – 26 of 82
   14 % Arias – 16 of 107

   A meeting of two Americans who won the World Team Cup for the United States just two weeks earlier. [5] Arias – the best teenager at the time – led *3:1 (40/30) in the 3rd set after the most spectacular point of the contest against the ’84 unbeatable McEnroe [1], but was broken twice in a row after long games… There’s somewhat resemblance to the 1989 French Open quarterfinal in which Stefan Edberg beat Alberto Mancini in straight sets on the same court (serve-and-volley specialists vs baseliners, who enjoyed the best times of their careers before turning 20 years of age). Arias had been a tennis prodigy, however, after the French Open ’84 he didn’t reach another major quarterfinal and didn’t win another title (had won five at the time). The short American of Spanish heritage won almost a half of his main-level matches in the first five years of his career comparing to another ten (131 vs 152).

   Arias never defeated any of three greatest champions of the times he was playing his best tennis:
   0-6 vs Lendl
   0-5 vs Connors & McEnroe
   

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