wb93sampras_courier

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  1. Voo de Mar says:
    Points won by each set: | 37-34, 44-38, 22-26, 26-21 |
    Points won directly behind the serve:
    52 % Sampras – 59 of 113
    27 % Courier – 37 of 135

    4th of July, Independence Day in the United States and the first all-American final at Wimbledon since 1984… In the 2nd set, Courier [2] saved set points in two different games, and had his own leading 6:5* in the tie-break – Sampras [1] responded with a forehand volley winner (lost the control a bit, but the ball luckily landed inside the court). The match lasted 2 hours 58 minutes, just like the Edberg-Becker Wimbledon final of 1990 when five sets were required. Sampras lost his serve twice in the 3rd set, apart from that his serve throughout the final was astonishing. “I thought I played pretty well,” Courier said, “I didn’t drop serve very often. I played maybe six loose points on my serve, all of them in the two games I got broken. When I had my chances to break him, I generally did. It was just grass-court tennis… roll the dice.”

    Sampras’ route to his 18th title:
    1 Neil Borwick 6-7(10), 6-3, 7-6(3), 6-3
    2 Jamie Morgan 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-4
    3 Byron Black 6-4, 6-1, 6-1
    4 Andrew Foster 6-1, 6-2, 7-6(6)
    Q Andre Agassi 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4
    S Boris Becker 7-6(5), 6-4, 6-4
    W Jim Courier 7-6(3), 7-6(6), 3-6, 6-3

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