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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 21, 2025 at 1:27 pm

   Points won by each set: | 25-16, 27-36, 29-40, 57-50, 25-8 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   17 % Agassi – 24 of 139
   18 % Clement – 33 of 174

   [14] Agassi conquered Paris in 1999, in the tenth edition of the 90s since his first final at Roland Garros, overcoming two exceptionally tough obstacles: in the second round (Clement) and in the final (Medvedev). Against Clement, Agassi was closer to lose (2 points away, 5 points in the final). The match against 8 cm shorter Frenchman, Agassi began in his typical fashion, moving the shorter opponent from corner to corner, 6-2, *2:1 (deuce), and a potentially routine victory almost turned into a four-set disaster. At 4-all in the 2nd set Clement [81] fought off a mini-set point with a service winner, and afterwards Agassi wouldn’t hold his serve in six consecutive tries! The Frenchman highly contributed, playing aggressive returns, especially from his backhand side. The 4th set almost repeated the 2nd one, Clement again came back from a break down, again withstood a mini-set point at 4-all, but luck wasn’t on his side at the end of that set. Agassi won two successive games trailing 0/30, and escaped from 0/40 serving at 6:5. In the 10th game, the ball was in play in three points when Clement wanted to create a match point, the closest he was at 30-all when Agassi’s backhand clipped the sideline giving him a winner. Serving more frequently than his opponent, working hard on the baseline, and occasional sprints to Agassi’s dropshots, took its toll – Clement began to suffer mild cramps in the decider and looked like a shadow of himself from the three previous sets.

   Serve & volley: both 0/1

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   October 21, 2025 at 1:41 pm

   ☆ There were two very long games in that match which is unusual (both on Clement’s serve):
   9 deuces at 1-all in the 3rd set and 10 deuces at 2-all in the 4th set.
   First Clement was broken (he fired a half of his aces in that game), then he held.

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