A pleasant all-wooden racquet match in untypical enviroment (clay-court in Japan). They both were ranked in the Top 20 at the time. The 27-year-old Taroczy led 3:0* in the 3rd set, but the American broke back and they held a few times quite comfortably before the tie-break, in which the Hungarian quickly established a decisive 4:1* lead. The final set lasted 64 minutes.
Taroczy’s route to the title:
1 Shozo Shiraishi 6-0, 6-1
2 Drew Gitlin 6-4, 6-2
3 Jun Kuki 6-1, 6-2
Q Ricardo Cano 6-3, 6-1
S Pat Dupre 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
W Eliot Teltscher 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(3)
Stats of the 3rd set only (44%)…
A pleasant all-wooden racquet match in untypical enviroment (clay-court in Japan). They both were ranked in the Top 20 at the time. The 27-year-old Taroczy led 3:0* in the 3rd set, but the American broke back and they held a few times quite comfortably before the tie-break, in which the Hungarian quickly established a decisive 4:1* lead. The final set lasted 64 minutes.
Taroczy’s route to the title:
1 Shozo Shiraishi 6-0, 6-1
2 Drew Gitlin 6-4, 6-2
3 Jun Kuki 6-1, 6-2
Q Ricardo Cano 6-3, 6-1
S Pat Dupre 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
W Eliot Teltscher 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(3)