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1. Voo de Mar says:

   January 24, 2025 at 10:26 am

   Points won by each set: | 48-43, 33-25 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   49 % Roddick – 34 of 69
   32 % Fish – 26 of 80

   Five months after the Cincinnati final, they played another all-serve battle. The only break occurred at 4-all in the 2nd set, Fish [21] considerably helped in that game with a couple of poor volleys. In the tie-break, Roddick trailed *0:3 when Fish almost passed him, and saved four set points: 5:6 and 7:8 with service winners, 10:11 and 11:12 with forehand winners (the third set point Roddick saved on return; approaching the net Fish left Roddick’s return and the ball landed in the server’s left corner). “We just know what each other’s going to do,” Roddick [3] said. “I found myself going against what I do instinctively because he knows what I do instinctively… I know when I make a joke, no matter how intense it is, he’s going to get it. No stepping on toes.” Roddick’s first tournament after he became a worldly recognizable player, that he didn’t wear baseball a cap or a visor.

   Roddick’s route to his 12th title:
   1 Christophe Rochus 6-4, 6-2
   2 Kristof Vliegen 6-2, 6-3
   Q Joachim Johansson 6-3, 7-6(7)
   S Robert Kendrick 7-6(3), 6-2
   W Mardy Fish 7-6(13), 6-4

   # Comparison of two finals with almost identical scorelines:
   San Jose ’04: Roddick d. Fish 7-6(13), 6-4… 1 hour 36 minutes… Total points: 81-68… Roddick saved 4 SPs in tie-break
   Dubai ’16: Wawrinka d. Baghdatis 6-4, 7-6(13)… 1 hour 54 minutes… Total points: 80-74… Wawrinka saved 5 SPs in tie-break

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