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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 24, 2022 at 12:11 am

   Points won by each set: | 24-38, 29-23, 53-50 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   24 % Rinderknech – 30 of 124
   21 % Carreno – 20 of 93

   An amazing match with presumably the longest tie-break in time (33 minutes) – 18/16 it’s the third longest tie-break of the deciding set and 9 match points saved by Rinderknech [56] it’s the third most (11 – the unbeaten record since 1976!)… The first edition of the event in Gijon, [15] Carreno’s home town. He was seeded no. 2 so the local fans could believe he would take the title. He led 5:4* (40/30) in the decider when the nightmare of wasted match points began:
   – Rinderknech fired an ace (the point was repeated because someone in the stands (?) called his ball out when it hit the line – Lahyani decided it… to some degree we can say there was 10 match points saved;)
   – the Frenchman saved the second match point with a FH drop-volley
   Another seven match points (four on return) Rinderknech fended off in the tie-break:
   4:6 (help of an overhead, Carreno’s volley error – he was close to serve an ace – missed a few centimeters)
   6:7 (an aggressive FH caused Carreno’s error)
   8:9 (backhand error)
   9:10* (backhand winner DTL)
   13:14* (backhand error)
   15:16* (backhand winner cross-court)

   Between 12-all and 17:16 all points were won against the serve. Then, on his 6th match point, Rinderknech attacked the net and finished the point at the net, with similarly constructed point he saved a match point at 6:7 in a tie-break of his previous event as he stunned Schwartzman 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(7). After defeating Carreno, the Frenchman was in tears and said that he dedicates the victory to his grand-mother who passed away five days before. # In the past two years, Carreno loses matches being close to win them more often than in his first six years on the tour; paradoxically in this period of bitter defeats he achieved two biggest results of his career: bronze medal at the Olympics and Masters 1K title (Montreal).
   

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   October 24, 2022 at 2:11 pm

   Carreno’s tight defeats in the past two years:

   2021
   Monte Carlo: Ruud 67 75 57 – two match points (mini MP at 4:1)
   Madrid: Delbonis 63 46 36 – five points away (led 4:0 in 2nd set)
   US Open: Cressy 75 64 16 46 67 – four match points (led 6:3* in deciding TB)
   Paris: Gaston 76 46 57 – six points away (in both sets he lost)
   2022
   Rio: Fognini 75 46 36 – five points away (mini MP at 4:3 in 2nd set)
   Acapulco: Giron 76 46 67 – two points away
   IW: Munar 64 46 67 – three match points (mini MP at 4-all in 2nd set)
   Miami: Sinner 75 57 57 – five match points (1 in 2nd, 4 in 3rd in which he led 5:2, 30/0)
   Madrid: VdZS 76 67 36 – three match points (4 mini MPs at 4:1)
   French Open: Simon 46 46 64 61 46 – five points away (led 40/15 on serve at 4:3)
   Hamburg: Molcan 36 61 67 – two points away (wasted 5 mini MPs in two games)
   Cincinnati: Kecmanovic 61 57 67 – three points away (wasted 3 mini MPs in 2nd set)
   Gijon: Rinderknech 64 36 67 – nine match points
   Davis Cup: Cilic 75 36 67 – two points away (6:5, 30/0 and 4:1* in the tie-break)
   2023
   Adelaide-2: Kwon 63 46 46 – double mini MP at 4-all in 3rd set
   Aus Open: Bonzi 64 64 67 16 67 – three points away to win in three sets, three mini MPs in the decider
   Rotterdam: Gasquet 62 67 26 – led 4:2* (30/0) in 2nd set

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