Points won by each set: [ 35-40, 42-39, 45-44, 46-43 ]
Points won directly on serve:
12 % Bruguera – 23 of 179
16 % Becker – 25 of 155
Déjà vu for Becker: two years after losing dramatic four-set final in Monte Carlo to Alberto Mancini of Argentina, he loses again the final in four sets to a 20-year-old Spanish speaking baseliner for whom it’s the second title of career # Just like two years before Becker [2] put himself within at least two games to win all sets he lost. The match was suspended due to rain on Sunday at *5:4 (0/15) for Becker after he had squandered a triple set point in the previous game. After the resumption on Monday, the German managed to take the set, but in the following three the luck wasn’t on his side. He led with a break in all those sets – 3:2, 4:2* (30-all) and 5:2 respectively. Similarly to the encounter against Mancini two years before, he led 5:2* in the 4th set to be two points away from winning the set serving at 5:3. “To win a tournament like Monte Carlo and beat a player like Becker is the dream of my life,” said Bruguera [15], who took home $125,000 from the $1-million purse. 4 hours 12 minutes – the only four-hour four-set final in the history of Masters 1K, also the longest four-set match in Becker’s amazing career. A year before Edberg and Agassi participated in an Indian Wells final with the same scores of sets, but their match was 40 minutes shorter with just 8 points fewer played.
Bruguera’s route to his 2nd title:
1 Renzo Furlan 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3
2 Cristiano Caratti 6-1, 7-5
3 Alberto Mancini 6-1, 6-4
Q Magnus Gustafsson 7-5, 7-5
S Horst Skoff 6-1, 6-4
W Boris Becker 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(6), 7-6(4)