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1. Voo de Mar says:

   November 15, 2023 at 7:46 pm

   Points won by each set: | 38-34, 27-16, 32-29 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   17 % Muster – 15 of 87
   11 % Chang – 10 of 89

   Six years after his sensational triumph as a teenager, Chang [6] came back to the French Open final with a bigger serve and harder ground-strokes. He led 4:1* (40/0) in the 1st set, then 5:4 (30/15), but that year Austrian was losing sets from behind on a regular basis, one break deficit didn’t mean anything for him. Ultimately Muster [5] notched his 35th win in a row dominating his opponent totally from 5-all onwards. “It didn’t look good,” Muster said about the first few games. “I just moved further into the court – I was staying too far back. He started missing, because I put more pressure on him, and I really got on a good roll.” The final lasted only 2 hours 1 minute. Chang’s better performance was expected because in the semifinal he’d ousted the double-defending champion – Bruguera. It was Chang’s second major final, he’d lose another two finals of this magnitude in 1996. Muster’s fifth back-to-back title (after Estoril, Barcelona, Monte Carlo & Rome)!

   Muster’s route to his 29th title:
   1 Gerard Solves 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-1
   2 Cedric Pioline 6-1, 6-3, 6-3
   3 Carlos Costa 6-3, 7-5, 6-2
   4 Andrei Medvedev 6-3, 6-3, 6-0
   Q Albert Costa 6-2, 3-6, 6-7(6), 7-5, 6-2 ☆
   S Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-4, 6-0, 6-4
   W Michael Chang 7-5, 6-2, 6-4

   ☆ Muster five points away to be eliminated from the event as Costa led 40/0 serving at 5-all in 4th set

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