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1. Voo de Mar says:

   July 16, 2020 at 10:06 am

   Points won by each set: | 31-15, 44-40, 36-32 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   28 % Agassi – 25 of 89
   35 % Stich – 39 of 109

   The final lasted 1 hour 56 minutes – Agassi did it what was expected from him already in 1988 when he reached the US Open semifinal as a teenager. Stich [4] – for whom Agsssi was the toughest opponent – was three points away from winning the last two sets. Agassi [20] struck his three aces in his first service game. He became the only Grand Slam champion to beat five seeded players in a draw for 16 of them (Ferreira, Chang, Muster, Martin, Stich). “Nothing can touch my winning Wimbledon,” Agassi said. “Nobody believed I could win it. Winning this has its own place. It’s the greatest thing I experienced after Wimbledon. I can’t believe it’s all over. I can’t believe I did this.” With this title Agassi finally turned into a consistent player, and kept it for a non-calendar year (he stopped playing incredible tennis after the US Open ’95). A few months later Agassi and Stich play another final (Vienna), it’s their last meeting, and Agassi wins for the sixth time in as many tries.

   Agassi’s route to his 22nd title:
   1 Stefan Eriksson 6-3, 6-2, 6-0
   2 Guy Forget 6-3, 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-2
   3 Wayne Ferreira 7-5, 6-1, 7-5
   4 Michael Chang 6-1, 6-7(3), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
   Q Thomas Muster 7-6(5), 6-3, 6-0
   S Todd Martin 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
   W Michael Stich 6-1, 7-6(5), 7-5

   ☆ Agassi – as the only unseeded player in history – defeated five seeds en route to the major title. But his victory over unseeded Forget makes that title run even more special – in the last six matches he defeated players who reached no. 6 or higher in their careers. Hence I decided to make pic-stats off all those matches.
   In the future, something comparable, would repeat only Ivanišević triumphing at Wimbledon ’01

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