halle00prinosil_krajicek

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  1. Voo de Mar says:
    December 6, 2025 at 1:15 pm
    Points won by each set: | 26-20, 34-23 |
    Points won directly behind the serve:
    51 % Prinosil – 25 of 49
    42 % Krajicek – 23 of 54

    ☆ The final of players whose parents were Czechs… Prinosil was completely out of form in the first half of 2000, he lost 8 consecutive ATP matches, dropped to no. 130, but the officials in Halle awarded him “wild card”, and he enjoyed the best month of his career on grass: after triumphing in Halle, he reached the Wimbledon fourth round as a qualifier (his best Slam result), so counting qualifying rounds, he won 11 matches in a row. His easy victory in an all-serve-and-volley final was quite shocking because Krajicek had led 5:1 in their H2H, and Prinosil was unable to return any of Krajicek’s first eight serves, but at 4:3 for Prinosil, the Dutchman [32] made three volley errors in succession and lost his serve. The quality of Prinosil’s returns was magnificent in the 2nd set, at 4:2 he broke for the third time after the longest game of the match (four deuces) and claimed the title after the only game he faced a break point. It was Krajicek’s 26th and last final (17-9 record), he was 29 at the time.

    Prinosil’s route to his 3rd and last title:
    1 Thomas Johansson 7-5, 6-1
    2 Ivan Ljubicic 6-4, 6-7(13), 6-4
    Q Nicolas Lapentti 6-3, 7-6(3)
    S Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-4, 7-6(4)
    W Richard Krajicek 6-3, 6-2

  2. Voo de Mar says:
    December 6, 2025 at 4:51 pm
    ☆ Prinosil was born in 1973 as Přinosil in Czechoslovakia and emigrated to West Germany at the age of 14. He became a Top 100 player already at 19, thus a better career could be expected from him. His progress was halted in 1993 though (the same with his peer Carlsen), and for the rest of his career he was drifting between ~Nos. 50 and 100. Nonetheless he played two events above his rankings: first in Ostrava ’96 as he captured the title defeating four future/past Top 10ers, then in Halle when he ousted five players of this calibre. His third, chronologically first, ATP title comes from Newport ’95 where he overcame less impressive opposition.

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