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1. Voo de Mar says:

   August 17, 2025 at 5:46 pm

   Points won by each set: | 28-20, 38-31 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   43 % Becker – 26 of 60
   28 % Lundgren – 16 of 57

   “I just couldn’t find the rhythm on my serve the entire match,” the unexpected runner-up Lundgren [153] said. “He was serving really, really well and there’s nothing you can do.” Lundgren fired two successive aces in his first service game, but then he was struggling in the heat (40°C at the court level). He lost his serve at 1:2 and was broken three times in the 2nd set facing break points in all his service games. Becker [3], serving for the championship, found himself at 0/40, but five unreturned serves gave him the title (the last one off the second serve). “I played very, very well in the first set, I hardly missed a ball,” Becker said. “My serve was perfect. At the beginning of the second set it was a bit worse, but then I picked it up at the end.”
   Lundgren enjoyed the best, most consistent period of his career in 1987, but the two biggest finals he played later on – he had won five matches en route to those finals (Stockholm ’88, where he defeated i.a. Mecir and Indianapolis ’90 where defeated i.a. Agassi), and faced Becker in the end stations – had no chance against the (West) German in Sweden and the United States.

   Becker’s route to his 27th title:
   2 Brian Garrow 6-2, 6-4
   3 Kevin Curren 7-6(4), 6-4
   Q Jim Courier 4-6, 7-5, 3-1 ret. [cramps] ☆
   S Jay Berger 6-4, 6-3
   W Peter Lundgren 6-3, 6-4

   ☆ Becker trailed *2:5 in the 2nd set against the birthday-boy (Courier turned 20)

   Serve & volley: Becker 3/5, Lundgren 3/6

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