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1. Voo de Mar says:

   September 15, 2022 at 11:11 pm

   Points won by each set: | 34-36, 50-40, 30-23 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   54 % Ivanisevic – 60 of 110
   51 % Forget – 53 of 103

   Super fast match between the best left-handed servers of the first half of the 90s, and Ivanisevic [5] defeats Forget for the third time with the help of two tie-breaks, he does it for the second time in the “best of five” format. The Frenchman [1130, wild card], who shortly before Wimbledon came back from an injury not playing twelve months, won his first matches after the break in London (having lost five in a row from 1993), and had his chances in the opening two sets against the Croat. He led 4:2* in the 1st set and squandered two set points at 6:5* in the 2nd set (apart from being broken in the opener, the Frenchman held all other games in that set at love). Ivanisevic took each breaker 7/3, and as a receiver he converted his second match point in the last game of the quarterfinal, playing tremendously well off the backhand side in that game.

   # Forget’s fifth and last major quarterfinal, not playing a semifinal;
   at the time he was a record holder in this regard (Aussie Open 1991, 1993), Wimbledon 1991, 1992, 1994) – it’ll be overcome by Robredo 19 years later

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