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1. Voo de Mar says:

   February 11, 2025 at 2:19 pm

   Points won by each set: | 38-27, 32-20|
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   6 % Nystrom – 4 of 61
   14 % Noah – 8 of 56

   The biggest title in career of the Swede [7] who was 23 at the time and playing his best tennis (it was his fifth final of the year with fourth title on third different surface). # The final, reduced from potential five to maximum three sets because a shower held up the start for 90 minutes, was played in light rain. Heavy conditions neutralised Noah’s offensive game-style, he had to work hard at the baseline before attacking the net; from the back of the court Nystrom was a far superior player. There were as many as 10 ‘deuce’ games among 17 they played. Nystrom collected $58,500 for his victory, while Noah, whose wife, Cecilia, gave birth to a baby girl the night before in New York, won $29,250. “I was not into the game. I wasn’t thinking about the match because this morning I had a little daughter and that for me is more important,” said Noah [ but earlier that year he’d been similarly helpless facing Nystrom in the La Quinta final ]. Later on that gloomy day in Monaco they faced each other in the doubles final, and the Frenchman took a revenge (alongside Forget) defeating Nystrom/Wilander 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

   Nystrom’s route to his 11th title:
   1 Diego Perez 6-4, 6-3
   2 Tarik Benhabiles 6-1, 6-2
   Q Jakob Hlasek 6-3, 6-1
   S Stefan Edberg 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
   W Yannick Noah 6-3, 6-2

   Serve & volley: Nystrom 1/1, Noah 6/18

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   February 11, 2025 at 4:47 pm

   # It was the only case in the 80s when the Monte Carlo final was concluded in the “best of three” format, in the 90s it also happened once – in 1993
   …and who knows, it’d be once in the 00s too (2003) but from 2007 onwards the finals have been played in the “best of three” as a general rule

   Nystrom was the hottest player on the tour in the first half of 1986 (41-4 record in May, with those four defeats only facing Top 10 players), after Monte Carlo he triumphed in Madrid not dropping a set. Four titles (two on clay) put him among main favorites to win the French Open, but his demanding calendar took its toll and Nystrom was shocked in Paris in the first round losing to veteran Paul McNamee 6-1, 3-6, 2-6, 0-6

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