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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 17, 2024 at 12:15 pm

   Points won by each set: | 43-37, 27-32, 35-26 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   31 % Forget – 29 of 93
   37 % Becker – 40 of 107

   A meeting of two best servers at the time (younger, upcoming players, who’d be remembered as the best servers of the first half of the 90s like Sampras, Stich, Ivanisevic & Krajicek were in the process of their service improvement), and similarly to their previous encounter (quarterfinal at Wimbledon ’91), they were obtaining many cheap points, just a few errors in crucial moments separated them. In the opener they both had their chances: [7] Forget wasted break points in two different games while [1] Becker led 4:3 (30/0) and 6:5 (30/15). In the tie-break nothing worked in Becker’s favor, and he lost it 1/7. The German had beaten Forget twice before after dropping the opener in a tie-break, and he reminded about this breaking in the 1st game of the 2nd set. The Frenchman conserved more energy in demanding conditions, and won the decider with relative ease – he broke at 2:1 (Becker’s double fault), at 4:1 he had four break points, and pushed Becker to several ‘deuces’ at 5:2 before finishing the match with a high-forehand volley on his second match point.

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