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1. Voo de Mar says:

   February 6, 2024 at 10:25 am

   Points won by each set: [ 32-21, 36-26, 35-39, 10-25, 37-24 ]
   Points won directly on serve:
   27 % Novacek – 38 of 140
   15 % Gustafsson – 23 of 145

   # Novacek (b. 1965) and two years younger Gustafsson had been playing in the same events for five years, but never faced each other until May ’91; when they finally met, within a couple of months they faced each other as many as five times (all on clay): Novacek [26] won three finals, Gustafsson [21] two other matches. The first of those meetings occurred in Hamburg, at the time it was the biggest final for them both, and afterwards they didn’t play another final of that significance. There was 4:1 for Novacek in the final set when he broke the Swede after 7 deuces (double fault on the break point) and converted his second match point with a service winner. Curiosity: 4 out of 6 aces were struck off second serves (two aces each).

   Novacek’s route to his 5th title:
   1 Carl-Uwe Steeb 6-4, 7-6(4)
   2 Omar Camporese 6-3, 6-2
   3 Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-2
   Q Mark Koevermans 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
   S Michael Stich 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(5)
   W Magnus Gustafsson 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 0-6, 6-1

   # Stich led 5:3 (30-all) in the 3rd set when his first serve was unreturned, but called ‘foot fault’. Stich couldn’t agree with that, lost his concentration and instead of having match point he missed his second serve to give Novacek a break point

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   February 6, 2024 at 10:29 am

   # The Novacek vs Gustafsson saga, their five clay-court meetings within four months of 1991:

   Hamburg (F): Novacek 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 0-6, 6-1
   French Open (1R): Gustafsson 6-2, 3-6, 5-1 ret.
   Hilversum (SF): Gustafsson 7-6, 6-3
   Kitzbuhel (F): Novacek 7-6, 7-6, 6-2
   Prague (F): Novacek 7-6, 6-2

   Ultimately their H2H is 4-4

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