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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 3, 2024 at 5:09 pm

   Points won by each set: | 31-18, 39-34, 35-31 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   21 % Nadal – 20 of 94
   17 % Simon – 16 of 94

   24-year-old Simon, a fresh Top 10er, ranking-wise [8] was expected to experience his first major quarterfinal, and he lived up to the task winning four matches with relative ease. He also could expect to make an upset in the quarterfinal because a few months earlier, he stunned Nadal in Madrid. The progress of their meeting in Melbourne resembled what had happened in Spain, with one significant difference though – Nadal [1] dealt better with tight endings of sets 2 and 3 in Australia. The Spaniard faced a set point at *4:5 in the 2nd set, but erased it with a firm overhead. At 3:4 in the 3rd set, Simon created a mini-set point, but Nadal found the baseline with his heavy top-spin forehand forcing an error. The Frenchman would wait six years to play his second and last major quarterfinal…

   Serve & volley: Nadal 2/2, Simon 0/1

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