rg98moya_corretja

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  1. Voo de Mar says:
    April 26, 2024 at 3:23 pm
    Points won by each set: | 30-25, 42-37, 35-26 |
    Points won directly behind the serve:
    23 % Moya – 21 of 89
    16 % Corretja – 18 of 106

    The same year they faced each other also in the US Open fourth round (Moya won in straights too) & ‘Masters’ final with Corretja as a 5-set victor, even though it seemed like another straight set win for the younger Spaniard. In Paris, during the windy final (gusts ~30 km/h) in the tightest 2nd set Moya [12] had break points at 4:3 and 5:4 (double set point). He was a better sever and mover than Corretja, so in their meetings Moya’s winners/errors ratio was always crucial. “For two weeks I’ll be a king,” Moya said of the period before Wimbledon. “I’m not sad, not at all, even beating him. I just won a Grand Slam, so I cannot describe how happy I am.” Corretja [14] would play another French Open final three years later not being a favorite again…

    Moya’s route to his 5th title:
    1 Sebastien Grosjean 7-5, 6-1, 6-4
    2 Pepe Imaz 6-4, 7-6(14), 6-2 ☆
    3 Andrew Ilie 6-3, 7-6(1), 6-2
    4 Jens Knippschild 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
    Q Marcelo Rios 6-1, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
    S Felix Mantilla 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
    W Alex Corretja 6-3, 7-5, 6-3

    ☆ “16/14” it’s the longest tie-break played at Roland Garros in the 20th Century (Imaz, Ilie & Knippschild were qualifiers)
  2. Voo de Mar says:
    July 19, 2025 at 9:57 pm
    ☆☆ Moya established a new record for the longest tie-break in the second round, Corretja did something more impressive in the third round on court no. 1 – he won the longest French Open match at the time (simultaneously the longest Grand Slam match, overcoming the previous record by five minutes) defeating Hernan Gumy 6-1, 5-7, 6-7(4), 7-5, 9-7 after 5 hours 31 minutes (the match had been suspended due to rain on Saturday after 3:55h at 6:5* for Corretja in the 4th set). In the 5th set Corretja led *5:1 squandering two match points at 5:4. At 7-all Gumy led 30/15 on Corretja’s serve, but the Spaniard was stronger in the end, and won the decider after 87 minutes. Their record would be overcome six years later, also in Paris in a French duel.

    After the French Open ’98, Corretja lost first rounds in successive events on grass, then moved to Gstaad to dash Becker’s hopes of winning his lone clay-court title.

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