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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 6, 2025 at 4:30 pm

   Points won by each set: | 31-24, 53-54, 31-25 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   32 % Sinner – 38 of 117
   32 % Rublev – 33 of 101

   Night session encounter of two players with ginger hair, and in a nutshell an explanation why one of them is a multiple Slam champion while the other an eternal quarter-finalist at this level. They generated the same percentage of unreturned serves (32%) hitting them with similar speed, almost the same ratio of points obtained thanks to winners/errors (~30/70%), and they both created break points in the same number of games (five each), yet the four years younger Sinner [4] won in straights. It was [5] Rublev’s tenth Slam quarterfinal, he had break points in each set when they were equalled on serve, but missed all his chances due to various factors; the closest he was leading 3:2 in the 2nd set because Sinner signalised in that game some issues with his abdomen. The most important game for the Russian didn’t mean break points, it was game no. 13 in the 2nd set – he led 5:1* in the tie-break, and didn’t play bad tennis, simply Sinner raised his level to win six successive points: the Italian played a sensational FH winner at 2:5, at 5-all he delivered his fastest serve that day (209 kph), attacked the net and struck his lone volley winner (FH).

   Serve & volley: Sinner 0, Rublev 1/1

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