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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 80s reached his only Slam quarterfinals that year (Wimbledon, US Open), and 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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