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1. Voo de Mar says:

   July 9, 2021 at 6:08 pm

   Points won by each set: | 28-17, 26-11, 26-15 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   40 % Federer – 24 of 59
   18 % Bjorkman – 12 of 64

   The most one-sided Wimbledon semifinal of the Open Era, but everyone expected that Federer [1] would win it in straight sets against the 34-year-old Swede [59], who had played just one major semifinal, nine years before. There was *3:2 for the Swiss when he won 11 games in a row. In the opening two sets he seemed to be extremely focused, in the 3rd set he relaxed, and I guess he played that set without any specific mental involvement, just for fun and the outcome was basically the same. Five years earlier, an inexperienced Federer defeated Bjorkman at Wimbledon in straight sets as well (7-6, 6-3, 7-6), then it was a serve-and-volley battle.

   Serve & volley: Federer 2/2, Bjorkman 5/12
   

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