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1. Voo de Mar says:

   April 8, 2023 at 8:53 pm

   Points won by each set: | 30-19, 26-16, 27-9 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   27 % Agassi – 16 of 59
   16 % Filippini – 12 of 68

   One of the shortest major quarterfinals of the Open Era (just 72 minutes)… Filippini [140] belonged to a big group of South American players who felt the most comfortably on clay in the 80s & 90s, but never made a big result in the most important event on the red surface. That quarterfinal it’s his career-highlight, and it came in an unexpected moment of his career when he was close to retirement. He went through to the main-draw as a qualifier, and already he could think it was a good result, then he not only won four consecutive matches – he did it not dropping a set (he won his qualifying matches also in straights)! Therefore he wasn’t even frustrated in the first two sets when he had no chance, he seemed like someone who was just enjoying to share the court for the first time with one of three best players of the 90s (he had played against Sampras & Courier, defeating the latter when he was a teenager). At the beginning of the 3rd set when the spectators began to boo him, Filippini finally showed some emotions, but in vain. At 0:2 he lost a game despite leading 40/0 and he didn’t want to prolong this humiliation. Following that event, the 32-year-old Uruguayan, won just one more main-level match (thanks to retirement).

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