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1. Voo de Mar says:

   August 23, 2020 at 4:18 pm

   MultiStar said under the previous pic:

   I know that the official match time of this match was around 2 hours and 30 minutes, but I have this match on dvd and it is in fact at least 20 minutes shorter than that. I think it was because of a rain interruption at the start of the match and they mistakenly added the time of the break to the official match time…This happens from time to time and it is normally reversed later on. For example the official match time of the famous Davis Cup encounter McEnroe vs. Becker in 1987 was at first 6:39 hours, but this was because they added the time of the then obligatory break between the 3rd and 4th set in Davis Cup matches. Later the 18-minute-break was subtracted and we have the official match time of 6 hours 21 minutes (or 6:20 h..?), as you have written correctly. Also, 2 and a half hours for this match would seem too long to me, as there were so many quick games and so few “deuce-games” in this match. On the other hand McEnroe and Lendl often took an enormous amount of time between points and unlike Nadal or Djokovic today they got away with it then…This is also a reason why their matches normally took quite some time…

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   August 23, 2020 at 4:17 pm

   Points won by each set | 34-34, 33-20, 31-24 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   32 % Lendl – 29 of 88
   34 % McEnroe – 30 of 88

   Entering the match, [1] McEnroe was 4-0 in the US Open finals, [2] Lendl 0-3 (lost three times in a row). McEnroe squandered a set point leading 5:2* in the 1st set; up to that moment he had won 16 consecutive points on serve – in the 9th game he was broken to ‘love’ though. Lendl became the first right-hander to win the US Open since 1973 (in the meantime: 5 – Connors, 4 – McEnroe, 1 – Orantes & Vilas). In the Summer of ’85, Lendl had lost two finals to McEnroe (both in straight sets), yet his easy way to the New York final proved to be extra beneficial. Their US Open ’85 final had serious repercussions, namely McEnroe became discouraged from training hard due to the loss of the No. 1 position. At the time he led 14:12 in H2H vs Lendl, but lost this rivalry 15-21 not being able to participate in another major final.

   Lendl’s route to his 48th title (2nd major):
   1 Jay Lapidus 6-2, 6-1, 6-3
   2 Bill Scanlon 6-2, 6-0, 6-3
   3 Horacia de la Pena 6-1, 6-1, 6-3
   4 Jaime Yzaga 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-0
   Q Yannick Noah 6-2, 6-2, 6-4
   S Jimmy Connors 6-2, 6-3, 7-5
   W John McEnroe 7-6(1), 6-3, 6-4

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