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1. Voo de Mar says:

   March 14, 2023 at 10:59 pm

   26 of 37 games included to the stats (70%)

   Sydney: Davis Cup ’83 (semifinal, grass): Australia d. France 4-1

   Noah [4], despite being one of the best servers in the 80s, never went far in two grass majors of his times (Aussie Open on grass until 1988) and finished his career with a negative ratio on that surface, so this is his arguably his biggest win in retrospect because four years later Cash [37] became a Wimbledon champion. When they faced each other in the first rubber of the Davis Cup semifinal, Cash was only 18 (already with a title) while the 23 y.o. Noah won his lone major crown a few months earlier. “I said to myself, ‘If he is that confident, I am going to show him that I can play on grass too,” Noah said. “You know, it’s much more fun when you win. I can play every day on grass when I win this kind of match.” There were consecutive breaks in each set, Noah saved two set points at *6:7 in the 2nd set… John Fitzgerald [33] became an Aussie hero that weekend, in the second rubber he stunned Leconte 4-6, 10-8, 9-7, 6-2 and clinched the tie on Sunday with a 13-11, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Noah, in blistering heat.

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