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1. Voo de Mar says:

   February 14, 2016 at 7:25 pm

   Points won by each set: | 46-49, 31-22, 27-13 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   28 % Klizan – 25 of 89
   34 % Monfils – 34 of 99

   Amazing tournament for the 26-year-old Slovak [43]: in the quarterfinal vs Bautista, he saved two match points at *3:5 in the 2nd set, and three match points in the following game; in the semifinal vs Mahut, he saved a match point at *3:5 in the 2nd set, and came back from a 4:6* deficit in the tie-break (at 5:6 hit the line with a risky forehand). In the final Klizan had wasted break points in Monfils’ three service games in the opening set, but finally broke the Frenchman at 4:3 in the 2nd set & enjoyed an eight game winning streak in total (Klizan broken as serving to win the final, but broke Monfils [18] again in the next game with a stunning forehand return)… Klizan is one out of thirteen players in the past #25 years to win an ATP event saving a match point in two matches, but no-one saved as many MPs as the Slovak – eight!

   Klizan’s route to his 4th title:
   1 Tommy Robredo 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3
   2 Marcos Baghdatis 6-3, 6-2
   Q Roberto Bautista 6-7(5), 7-6(6), 6-0 – 5 m.p.
   S Nicolas Mahut 6-7(3), 7-6(7), 6-2 – 3 m.p.
   W Gael Monfils 6-7(1), 6-3, 6-1

   # Players to win an ATP event saving MP in two matches since 1993: Jim Courier (Memphis ’93), Fernando Meligeni (Pinehurst ’96), Nicolas Lapentti (Lyon ’99), Jan-Michael Gambill (Delray Beach ’01), Lleyton Hewitt (San Jose ’02), Nikolay Davydenko (Moscow ’04), Wesley Moodie (Tokyo ’05), Albert Montanes (Estoril ’09), Sam Querrey (Los Angeles ’10), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Marseille ’13), Rajeev Ram (Newport ’15), Martin Klizan (Rotterdam ’16), Dominic Thiem (Buenos Aires ’16)

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