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1. Voo de Mar says:

   November 5, 2025 at 3:53 pm

   Points won by each set: | 37-33, 35-27, 31-22 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   32 % Jarryd – 31 of 96
   26 % Gunthardt – 24 of 89

   Jarryd [6] had lost the first rounds at Wimbledon in his first four appearances there, but in 1985 he advanced to the semifinals with three easy wins in a row. In the mid 80s he turned from a clay-court specialist to a specialist of fast surfaces and his career-best result at majors reflected it on Wimbledon’s grass. I’d say that the quality of backhand returns separated him from Gunthardt [56] in an 90% S/V contest, especially in the first two sets which were pretty balanced – the Swiss had four break points at 4-all in the opener, in the 2nd set there was 3-all, but Jarryd’s two-handed backhand made the difference. Gunthardt seemed a bit resigned in the 3rd set, but got his only break trailing 1:4 with the help of a forehand return which caught the intersection of sideline and baseline.

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   November 6, 2025 at 7:04 pm

   ☆ The 1980s it was a crazy period in terms of tennis equipment when different materials (wood, aluminium, fibreglass, graphite, composites) as well as sizes were competing against each other. Järryd achieved his best result at Slams using one of the weirdest racquets Fischer “SuperForm” which featured a diamond-shaped head, deprived of the throat typical for graphite racquets

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