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1. Voo de Mar says:

   December 22, 2025 at 11:18 am

   Points won by each set: | 34-25, 20-30, 34-26, 35-29 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   27 % Courier – 34 of 122
   23 % Hlasek – 26 of 111

   “This is an amazing feeling. You can’t buy it,” said Courier after his 2-hour 51-minute clincher, “Nothing means more to be here with these guys.” The best player of 1992 disappointed on day one losing a dramatic 4-hour 23-minute match to Rosset, who was serving very well (27 aces). Probably it helped Hlasek [36] to believe in his chances after being demolished by Agassi, moreover the Swiss born in Czechoslovakia, didn’t have Courier’s complex – they had met just once before when Courier was playing his second main-level match, and Hlasek schooled him 6-2, 6-2 (Johannesburg ’87)… Admittedly the American took the opener easily, but afterwards Hlasek accelerated all his shots and somehow channelled the best version of himself from the year 1988. At the turn of 2nd and 3rd set, for about twenty minutes, Courier didn’t have any idea how to play losing almost 5 out of 6 games. In the 3rd set Hlasek had a break point at 2:0, in the 4th set a break point at 2:1. He missed two put-away overheads in vital moments which could be decisive: to open a game leading 2:1 in 3rd (to be broken) and having a game point at 3-all in the 4th set to be broken again. Courier finished the match with an unreturned slice serve, he couldn’t have asked for a better finish of the best year of his career. In the semifinal against Sweden (Kulti) and in the final against Switzerland he won tough 4-set matches being expected to win in straights, but he won them anyway, and that’s the most important for his legacy – with those two wins his contribution to the Davis Cup ’92 triumph is indisputable even though Agassi and Sampras contributed more over four ties.

   Serve & volley: Courier 11/12, Hlasek 16/22

   USA d. SWITZERLAND 3-1 in Tarrant County Centre, Fort Worth, TX, USA: Hard (Indoor)
   Andre Agassi (USA) d. Jakob Hlasek (SUI) 6-1, 6-2, 6-2
   Marc Rosset (SUI) d. Jim Courier (USA) 6-3, 6-7(9), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
   John McEnroe / Pete Sampras (USA) d. Jakob Hlasek / Marc Rosset (SUI) 6-7(5), 6-7(7), 7-5, 6-1, 6-2
   Jim Courier (USA) d. Jakob Hlasek (SUI) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
   Andre Agassi (USA) vs Marc Rosset (SUI) unp.

   

   From left: Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras & Tom Gorman (captain)

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   December 22, 2025 at 11:21 am

   USA’s route to the title: Argentina 5-0, Czechoslovakia 3-2, Sweden 4-1, Switzerland 3-1

   Points:
   6 – Andre Agassi
   3.5 – Pete Sampras
   2 – Jim Courier
   1.5 – John McEnroe
   0.5 – Rick Leach

   It’s the only time in history the entire team in the final was consisted of four Nos. 1: former McEnroe, current Courier, future Agassi & Sampras.
   The 46-year-old captain Gorman was highest ranked no. 8 in 1973

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