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1. Voo de Mar says:

   January 1, 2024 at 11:01 pm

   Points won by each set: | 42-33, 37-37, 33-33 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   15 % Agassi – 17 of 113
   26 % Zivojinovic – 27 of 102

   Admittedly it was Agassi’s second “best of five” final following Memphis a few months earlier, but the first big one in his career, because at the time, Forest Hills had a very similar status to Monte Carlo and Hamburg, so the events which would become members of a prestigious “Mercedes Super 9” club two years later while Forest Hills would coincidentally disappear from the calendar. The 18-year-old Agassi [15] was still playing nonchalant tennis, but his amazing skills from the baseline proved to be too good for Zivojinovic [31], whose appearance in a clay court final was surprising (green clay was faster than red clay though). In the quarterfinal he’d stunned top seeded Edberg 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 (having earlier defeated 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 an unknown Courier in round 1). Agassi was distinctively leading in each set: 5:2* in the first two, 4:2* in the 3rd. “This was my fourth match in 48 hours, but there was too much excitement to be tired,” Agassi said of the rain-interrupted play throughout the week. “The guy has a lot of fun with the crowd and doesn’t seem to worry about whether the ball is going out or not” said Zivojinovic. It was the first of three Agassi’s matches won 3-0 when he scored “7” in front of each set, and in every case it happened against top servers of each decade in which Agassi notched those wins.

   Agass’s route to his 4th title:
   1 Andreas Maurer 6-0, 6-1
   2 Marc Flur 6-2, 6-4
   3 Michael Chang 6-2, 6-4
   Q Alberto Tous 6-2, 6-2
   S Aaron Krickstein 6-3, 6-3
   W Slobodan Zivojinovic 7-5, 7-6(2), 7-5

   # Comparison of Agassi’s three 3-0 wins with 7-5/6 sets:
   Forest Hills 1988 (F): Agassi d. Zivojinovic 7-5, 7-6, 7-5… 2 hours 18 minutes… Total points: 112-103… 5-5-2 points away
   Wimbledon 1993 (4R): Agassi d. Krajicek 7-5, 7-6, 7-6… 2 hours 40 minutes… Total points: (?-?)… 5-1-1 points away
   US Open 2005 (2R): Agassi d. Karlovic 7-6, 7-6, 7-6… 2 hours 28 minutes… Total points: 132-122… 1-2-3 points away

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   January 1, 2024 at 11:04 pm

   18-year-old Agassi and 16-year-old Chang [154] faced each other professionally for the first time at Forest Hills,
   the US prodigies would finish their mutual meetings 15 years later with Agassi winning that rivalry 15-7

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