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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 14, 2025 at 5:24 pm

   Points won by each set: | 41-33, 36-28, 35-37, 29-34, 36-28 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   28 % Stich – 47 of 164
   17 % Boetsch – 31 of 173

   June 3, 1995 – one of the most important matches of my life because with these two players I returned to regularly watching tennis after a five-month break during which I saw almost nothing (having carefully followed between October 1990 and December 1994). It was a beautiful match, played throughout in a drizzle, these two artists of tennis born in the late 60s, tried everything, using all angles allowed by the tennis geometry as well as all spins allowed by the equipment of the 90s… Paradoxically the most points was played in the opening set, consisted of the fewest games, 5 out of 8 games went to ‘deuce’, Boetsch [52] would have won it ‘6-2’ if had played better those games when both were two points away from taking them at the same time. In the 2nd set Stich [12] broke at 1-all and held comfortably five times. His straightforward victory was on the horizon, he won the most spectacular rally to get a triple break point at 3-all in the 3rd set, raised his arms in joy, but it was a premature celebration – Boetsch won five points in a row, and the French crowd – always very friendly towards him – began to cheer even more… it changed the complexion of the encounter. Nonetheless Stich’s four-set win seemed inevitable, yet he lost four games as he led in them: 2:0* (40/15), 3:1 (30/15), *3:2 (40/15) and 3-all (30/0). Boetsch had gathered five games in a row, began the decider with 30/0 as a receiver, but Stich snapped the losing streak, at 1-all he escaped from 0/40 and broke leading 3:2. In the last game he withstood a double break point, and finished the beautiful 3-hour 42-minute contest with an overhead… it was their only meeting.

   Serve & volley: Stich 20/41, Boetsch 11/19

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