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1. Voo de Mar says:

   January 23, 2021 at 12:02 am

   Points won by each set: | 32-25, 26-15, 31-25 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   56 % (!) Sampras – 43 of 76
   39 % Pioline – 31 of 78

   Second major final between Sampras [1] & Pioline [44], the previous one occurred at the US Open ’93: Sampras won 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 after 2 hours 4 minutes in New York, this time he needed 1 hour 34 minutes displaying phenomenal service performance. Pioline, similarly to Mecir, lost quickly two major finals to the best player of a decade (Mecir to Lendl). En route to the final he defeated only one seeded player (Ferreira in 3R), but in the quarter- (Rusedski) and semi-final (Stich), he was rather an underdog.

   Sampras’ route to his 48th title:
   1 Mikael Tillstrom 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
   2 Hendrik Dreekmann 7-6(2), 7-5, 7-5
   3 Byron Black 6-1, 6-2, 6-2
   4 Petr Korda 6-4, 6-3, 6-7(8), 6-7(1), 6-4
   Q Boris Becker 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-4
   S Todd Woodbridge 6-2, 6-1, 7-6(3)
   W Cedric Pioline 6-4, 6-2, 6-4

   # Lost his serve just twice in 24 sets (Tillstrom – 1st set, Woodbridge – 3rd set)!

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