Points won by each set: | 33-29, 31-27 |
Points won directly behind the serve:
20 % Bruguera – 13 of 62
17 % Ivanisevic – 10 of 58
Just one week after their meeting in the Hamburg semifinal, they played another semifinal of a big event. The Croat [4] began the Roman encounter in similar fashion, breaking Bruguera early in the opener. He led 3:1* but the Spaniard [7] broke back and got the decisive breaks leading 5:4 in both sets. Ivanisevic “saved” the first match point with a powerful service winner, but a linesman called his first “foot fault”, and after the second conservative serve, the Croat lost a baseline rally.