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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 19, 2022 at 8:50 pm

   Points won by each set: | 30-14, 32-21 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   37 % Woodbridge – 15 of 40
   22 % Rios – 13 of 57

   The biggest win in [43] Woodbridge’s career, especially in retrospect because 1.5 years later, Rios [11] sensationally became the best player in the world. That semifinal the Chilean played an abysmal tennis though. Already three double faults in the 2nd, 5-deuce, game of the match. In the following game he was angry that the umpire overruled the linesman’s decision after a potential forehand winner, and caught a bad mood, like “Ok, I can do something unprecedented and will win two matches in a row after a 0-6 opener” (a day before he’d defeated a fellow Aussie, Rafter 0-6, 7-6, 6-1 being three points away from loss). In the 2nd set he improved, led *3:2 (40/30) when committed a double fault, another two DFs, lost his serve and the interest in fighting. It was his fourth Mercedes Super 9 semifinal that year, he lost them all, at the Canadian Open as a big favourite, but he was only 21, the following year he improved… and finished career with 5 titles at this level.

   Serve & volley: Woodbridge 0, Rios 0/2

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