rg93courier_prpic

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  1. Voo de Mar says:
    November 20, 2025 at 12:24 pm
    Points won by each set: | 27-10, 28-32, 29-13, 45-38 |
    Points won directly behind the serve:
    22 % Courier – 24 of 106
    9 % Prpic – 11 of 116

    It was a bizarre encounter (their only meeting) because Courier [2] seemed to have an overwhelming advantage for more than two hours, yet instead of a comfortable three-set victory he was three points away from going the distance. After easily winning the opener he led 2:1 with a break in the 2nd set having won four preceding service games at love, nonetheless he was broken at 30. There was 4-all when Prpic [181] took two games in succession, and again his baseline game looked hopeless for a longer time as he was dropping eight games in a row. Courier led *4:1 (30/0), proposed his selective serve-and-volley action, Prpic passed him with a tight backhand cross, and began dominating baseline rallies – he won four successive games and had an easy BH-volley to begin the 10th game leading 15/0 – he missed and showed negative emotions for the only time in that match. Courier ultimately managed to get three straight games – a similar match he’d experienced in the second round eliminating his left-handed countryman, troublesome Jeff Tarango 6-1, 6-7, 6-3, 7-5 (Tarango was signing autographs during one of games).

    Serve & volley: Courier 6/9, Prpic 4/4
  2. Voo de Mar says:
    November 20, 2025 at 12:57 pm
    ☆ Goran Prpić was projected to play the French Open quarterfinal in 1991 (at least the 4th round) as a Top 5 player on clay that season before the Parisian Slam, but lost to Mancini in five sets of the round two. Two years later Prpić’s advancement to the quarterfinals was absolutely unexpected because his clay-court record leading to Paris was just 1-5 (an impressive 21-9 in 1991). Despite his very low ranking he could have played without qualifying rounds because a month before he had been no. 80 when lost many points in Monte Carlo (the semifinal a year before). That match against Courier it was “swan song” of the Croat, soon afterwards he’d disappear from the main-level struggling with his right knee that bothered him throughout his career forcing to play under painkillers (he was wearing a knee brace since February 1986 when he suffered a severe injury during a Boca West match against Krickstein; that injury sidelined him for more than two years).

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