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1. Voo de Mar says:

   December 8, 2023 at 3:55 am

   Points won by each set: | 31-16, 26-20 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   39 % Hewitt – 17 of 43

   A unique situation that a tournament champion doesn’t play match points in his last two matches. # It happened only twice before, six years before in Hamburg – then Albert Costa spent 80 minutes on the court in his last two matches, Hewitt [4] just 69 minutes – it’s more or less what a player may expect entering the court with an assumption to easily win in straight sets, therefore I decided to make a combined stats. Verkerk [17] was struggling from the beginning, lost the first four games. At 2-6, *(0/40), after a consultation with the trainer, he decided it didn’t make sense to continue. With Moya [7] it was a different story, he was in a great form coming from Chennai where he claimed a title, and had two break points at 2:1. Facing a break point at 3-all he was involved in an electric rally, and hitting his big forehand he twisted his right ankle. He was lying on the court for a few minutes, then he received a medical time-out, came back to the court, and at 3:4* (15/40) he decided to quit. Verkerk appeared the following week at the Aussie Open, Moya withdrew from that tournament, but the injury wasn’t serious, and four weeks later he returned to the tour reaching the final in Buenos Aires. What’s really bizarre, Hewitt won his third successive match also after retirement, in the first round of the Aussie Open, Mamiit withdrew facing Hewitt trailing 2-6, 4-6, *1:0 (right ankle).

   Hewitt’s route to his 20th title:
   1 Sargis Sargsian 6-4, 6-2
   2 Karol Kucera 6-4, 6-1
   Q Arnaud Clement 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
   S Martin Verkerk 6-2 ret. [stomach]
   W Carlos Moya 4-3 ret. [ankle]

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   March 19, 2025 at 7:44 am

   # Kucera, defeated by Hewitt in the second round, had won a title in Ostrava ’97 in very similar circumstances
   defeating Ivaniseivc 6-2 ret. (35 min) in the semifinal, and Magnus Norman 6-2 ret. (28 min) in the final

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