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1. Voo de Mar says:

   November 6, 2025 at 3:04 pm

   Points won by each set: | 39-26, 29-13, 30-14 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   50 % Becker – 29 of 58
   28 % Srejber – 26 of 92

   Srejber [37] began this match optimistically, he led 40/0 after three unreturned serves, but held after one deuce and it was the beginning of a disastrous night for him with a constant noise of air-planes over the main stadium in New York City. Srejber’s return games were catastrophic, his volleys not much better while Becker enjoyed a very good evening as far as his backhands are concerned, and after 1 hour and 21 minutes the match was concluded with a service winner. Becker [3] dropped two points on serve in two games of the 3rd set (he went through over two sets winning all service games with extreme ease), which made some exitement in the crowd; first after Srejber’s best forehands, then after his best backhands of the contest. There was a stretch across 2nd and 3rd sets, when Srejber got only one point in his four successive service games! He needed to save three match points to avoid a bagel set in the end. It was rather surprising that the Czechoslovak was beaten so severely because earlier that year he had defeated Becker 7-6, 6-3 at Boca West (also hardcourt outdoors) withstanding two set points in the opener, being broken just once; in the US Open quarterfinal he lost his serve twice each set.

   Serve & volley: Becker 12/15, Srejber 17/53

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   November 6, 2025 at 3:19 pm

   ☆ Šrejber – the tallest player of the 80s (204 cm) – was a revelation of the 1986 season when he was 22. As an unknown qualifier ranked 121, he advanced to the Toronto final (indoors) in February. He backed up this success with a quarterfinal of a big event at Boca West and the US Open quarterfinal. These three results mainly helped him to reach career-high no. 23 in October of 1986. Even though he didn’t turn into a dangerous floater in the late 80s, he claimed his lone title in Rye Brook ’88. At the end of his career, he lost to the tallest player of the 90s, Marc Rosset in the Lyon ’90 first round 6-7(3), 7-6(2), 6-7(3). The Czech giant finished his career aged 27.

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