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1. Voo de Mar says:

   February 21, 2025 at 4:11 pm

   Stats without the first set: number of unreturned serves, aces, double faults & break points valid for the entire match

   Points won by each set: | X, 28-20, 40-48, 26-18 |
   Points played on serve in the last three sets: Agassi 97, Chang 83

   Chang [14] was brutally verified as a defending champion in a duel of American prodigies. Agassi [5] had stronger serve, forehand and backhand, thus Chang’s biggest asset at the time – his patience during gruelling rallies – couldn’t work when his two years older countryman was on fire, and it was the case on that day. Agassi’s sheer power in baseline exchanges was so overwhelming that he was finishing many points with either overheads or high volleys. He won five games in a row from *1:2 in the opener, and seven games in a row from *0:1 in the 2nd set. After 90 minutes, when Agassi led 3:2* in the 3rd set it seemed like a potential humiliation of the defending champion. Chang began the sixth game with an ace (the ball probably caught the line), and Agassi, instead of accepting it, began to quarrel – it cost him the loss of concentration, and he missed three successive returns afterwards even though he’d been returning almost all Chang’s serves before. In the following game Agassi was perhaps still pondering about the umpire’s decision to award Chang the ace, and lost his serve for the only time (broken at 15). In the 4th set Agassi imposed his supremacy again to finish the 2-hour 40-minute contest in an untypical fashion with a two-handed BH volley winner.

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