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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 28, 2025 at 6:16 pm

   Points won by each set: | 27-17, 41-39 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   41 % Forget – 25 of 60
   43 % Schapers – 28 of 64

   Schapers [82], the second tallest player of the 80s, and the best Dutchman at the time, didn’t possess a potent serve, but with his height (198 cm) that serve was good enough to give him four Grand Prix finals as well as two Australian Open quarterfinals (both in Melbourne on two different surfaces). The Lorraine Open, a tournament where the venue alternated annually from Lorraine’s two main cities of Metz and Nancy (always February/March), was his favorite; he reached two finals and a semifinal there. The year 1989 marked the last edition in the ten-year-old event history. In its last match, on a fast carpet court with a few baseline exchanges, Forget [42] claimed his first title in three years. He broke at 2:1 in the 1st set, and recovered with a reflex-volley from *0:3 (0/30) in the 2nd set as well as from *1:4 in the tie-break. On his first match point, he played his lone backhand winner (a perfect return inside-out).

   Forget’s route to his 2nd title:
   1 Todd Nelson 6-2, 6-2
   2 Claudio Mezzadri 7-5, 6-4
   Q Olivier Delaitre 6-4, 6-3
   S Eduardo Masso 6-3, 7-5
   W Michiel Schapers 6-3, 7-6(5)

   ☆ Apart from that final, Forget and Schapers met twice in Toulouse (1985, 1992), and on both occasions Forget won 7-5 in the 3rd set

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