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1. Voo de Mar says:

   November 26, 2025 at 3:15 pm

   Points won by each set: | 29-28, 51-46, 44-45 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   18 % Gomez – 24 of 131
   24 % Noah – 27 of 112

   “Yannick doesn’t usually hurt me from the baseline. For him to beat me on clay, he has to make a high percentage of serves. And the return of serve is one of my best shots. So that is why I feel better playing him.” said Gomez [12] after defeating Noah [6] for the fifth time in their six meetings. The Ecuadorian had the 1st set under full control breaking in the opening game, and holding five times with ease. The next two sets were very tight and Noah could win them both: in the 2nd set he had a break point at 3:0, also a triple mini-set point at 4:3, and led 5:4* in the tie-break… in the 3rd set he had a set point at 5:3* when Gomez hit a backhand cross-court winner on the line. Gomez finished the event with an ace down the T and jumped into the air for joy; before his unexpected French Open ’90 title, the Forest Hills title could have been considered as one of his greatest achievements (comparable to his two Rome titles from the years 1982 and 1984). He’d finish his career with 16 clay-court titles in total, six of them on green clay in America.

   Gomez’s route to his 15th title:
   1 Nelson Aerts 6-4, 6-3
   2 Eduardo Bengoechea 6-2, 6-4
   3 Barry Moir 6-3, 6-4
   Q Martin Jaite 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
   S Boris Becker 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
   W Yannick Noah 6-4, 7-6(5), 7-6(1)

   Serve & volley: Gomez 11/18, Noah 11/20

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   November 26, 2025 at 4:21 pm

   ☆ Forest Hills (located in the Queens district of New York City) it’s one of the most iconic tournaments of the 80s, played at the same venue where the US Open (U.S. National Championships in the pre-Open Era) had been held from 1915 to 1977. In the years 1980-89 the Forest Hills tournament was played – like the US Open editions of the years 1975-77 – on green-clay, the so-called Har-Tru, making it the biggest clay-court event in the United States. The year Gómez triumphed there, the final was played for the first time ‘the best of five’ which makes that year more special (the same format in the next year too).

   Prize money/draw of the four biggest clay-court tournaments in 1987 leading to Roland Garros:
   Monte Carlo… $513,000 – 48
   Hamburg… $300,000 – 56
   Forest Hills… $500,000 – 56
   Rome… $400,000 – 64

   The year 1987 means the first one when Hamburg was upgraded which eventually led that event to be a part of the “Mercedes Super 9” series in the 90s
   while Forest Hills disappeared from the calendar

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