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1. Voo de Mar says:

   June 9, 2023 at 1:36 pm

   Points won by each set: [ 26-14, 35-40, 34-30, 27-15 ]
   Points won directly on serve:
   28 % Courier – 32 of 111
   23 % Krajicek – 26 of 110

   Krajicek led on serve 40/15 at 1:2, but was broken and lost the plot. He was playing worse tennis than anyone could have expected because his two previous ’92 matches against Courier were dramatic (won 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in Antwerp, then lost 7-6, 6-7, 5-7 in Frankfurt). The two-time defending champion led 6-1 5:3*, then serving in the following game 30/15, but Krajicek broke back out of nowhere to take the set in a 7/2 tie-break. Courier [1] again easily led 5:2* in the 3rd set, Krajicek [13] broke back once again, and at 5-all he played something what I suppose may be considered as one of the fastets forehands ever played on the tour. It was his “swan song”, afterwards he lost 8 out of the last 10 games being visibly tired – at 1:2 in sets vs Courier [2] he faced “mission impossible” – winning a fourth straight match in five sets (he’d defeated in back-to-back five-setters: Arrese 3:00h, C.Costa 4:12h and Novacek 3:06h)… Before Krajicek, no-one was able to win three straight five-setters in Paris since 1979 (Eliot Teltscher).

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