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1. Voo de Mar says:

   November 8, 2023 at 10:24 pm

   Points won by each set: | 30-22, 32-24 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   33 % Henman – 18 of 54
   14 % Vinciguerra – 8 of 54

   # Vinciguerra [47] of Sweden, the son of an Italian restaurateur, belonged to the group “New Balls Please” – new generation of players born in the late 70s/early 80s who were supposed to dominate the 00s decade. At the age of 20 he had already played four ATP finals, and no-one could expect at the time, he wouldn’t add another; he was mixed up in sentences with a few players who’d enjoy very successful careers (Malisse noticeably below expectations, but much better than Vinciguerra though). Nonetheless his two best Masters 1K events (semifinals in Rome & Paris) came following his last ATP final which he lost to Henman [10]. The Brit played a perfect match from a tactical point of view; instead of his standard serve-and-volley game, he was attacking the net with approach shots most of the time, and it allowed him to get an easy victory (he had a double break point at 4:2 in the 2nd set). He finished the contest with four clean winners (two aces, BH volley, another ace). Back problems caused Vinciguerra’s downhill from 2002 onwards…

   Henman’s route to his 7th title:
   1 Slava Dosedel 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
   2 George Bastl 7-5, 7-5
   Q Bohdan Ulihrach 6-3, 6-4
   S Jan Siemerink 6-4, 7-6(3)
   W Andreas Vinciguerra 6-3, 6-4

   Serve & volley: Henman 2/4, Vinciguerra 3/5

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   November 8, 2023 at 11:34 pm

   # Comparison of the progress of “New Balls” born in the early 80s who created some attention already in the late 90s:

   1980
   Safin… 24 – 2 – 11 – 3
   Ferrero… 42 – 12 – 5 – 4
   Malisse… 145 – 127 – 33 – 25
   1981
   Vinciguerra… 98 – 52 – 34 – 180
   Hewitt… 25 – 7 – 1 – 1
   Federer… 64 – 29 – 13 – 6

   Year-end rankings: 1999 – 2000 – 2001 – 2002

   Vinciguerra’s H2H records at the time, against players better than him: 4-0 Safin, 1-0 Federer, 0-2 Hewitt… didn’t face Ferrero

   

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