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1. Voo de Mar says:

   February 19, 2025 at 3:17 pm

   Points won by each set: | 25-16, 35-24, 33-26 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   21 % Connors – 16 of 76
   28 % Gunthardt – 24 of 83

   1985 it was the best year in career of 26-year-old Gunthardt [47]. The best Swiss player of the first half of the 80s reached his only Slam quarterfinals that year (Wimbledon, US Open), and he also captured the biggest doubles title of his life – Wimbledon. Against Connors [4] in a night session encounter, he was pretty hopeless though. As a doubles specialist he began the match using the serve-and-volley tactics, but couldn’t deal with the pace of Connors’ returns and passing-shots, hence he decided to accelerate his first serves to hang in there somehow which was reflected in a high number of aces at a straightforward defeat. Gunthardt’s lone break point came as he trailed 2:3 in the mid-set. It was their seventh and last meeting, Gunthardt stole a set just once.

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