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1. Voo de Mar says:

   September 3, 2020 at 11:47 am

   Points won by each set: | 47-41, 44-42, 43-41 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   27 % Courier – 36 of 131
   25 % Chang – 33 of 127

   One of the tightest three-setters at majors as far as the second week is concerned. Courier [15] and Chang [5], third & fourth best US players of the ‘golden generation’, for ten years they had an exceptionally balanced rivalry (finished at 12-12) and quite strange that in those 24 meetings, only one occurred in the ‘best of five’ formula. But what a match it was! Chang pushed himself to a quite comfortable position to win all sets he lost:
   1st set: he led 5:3*, at 5:4 he squandered four set points on serve (Courier saved two with winners & clinched the tie-break 7/5)
   2nd set: he led *5:3 (30-all) when Courier shouted “coño” which in Spanish means ‘cone’, but also ‘cunt’… Courier got a warning, he was arguing with the umpire, and Chang committed a double fault; nonetheless the younger American was a point away from the set again at 6:5* (40/30) – Courier hit a FH winner and won the second tie-break 7/3
   3rd set: he led 4:2* (40/15) – Courier withstood the double mini-set point in convincing style, later on leading 5:3* Chang got deuce three times, but in that set he was not able to produce a set point… facing the second match point he committed a double fault
   Courier was 1-1-2 points respectively from losing the sets he won, three years later Ivanisevic will beat Siemerink (in three tie-breaks of Wimbledon quarterfinal) saving set point(s) in each set and it’s just one of two cases of this type I know.

   Serve & volley: Courier 0, Chang 1/1

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