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1. Voo de Mar says:

   March 25, 2022 at 3:35 pm

   Points won by each set: [ 44-40, 28-18 ]
   Points won directly on serve:
   36 % Del Potro – 29 of 79
   31 % Zemlja – 16 of 51

   Historic moment for the Slovenian tennis as Zemlja [70] becomes the first Slovene to reach an ATP final. His advancement to the final was totally unexpected because he was 26 years-old, known as a Challenger player, without any ATP quarterfinal. He went through two qualifying rounds, and came back from 3:5 in the deciding tie-break against Malisse. In the semifinal he trailed 3-6, *1:3 vs Tipsarevic (three points away from defeat in the 2nd set tie-break at 2:4). In the final he'd been playing very well (flat ground-strokes from both wings) against Del Potro [8] until he wasted three mini-set points at 4-all… Zemlja, born very close to the Austrian border, remained a player of “one tournament” to the end of his career five years later.

   Del Potro’s route to his 12th title:
   2 Daniel Brands 6-7(5), 7-6(4), 7-6(6) ☆
   Q Marinko Matosevic 6-2, 6-2
   S Gilles Muller 7-6(4), 7-6(5)
   W Grega Zemlja 7-5, 6-3

   Serve-and-volley:: Del Potro 0/1, Zemlja 0

   ☆ Del Potro saved a triple mini-match point vs Brands [111] at 4-all in the 2nd set, and trailed *4:5 in the deciding tie-break,
   he fired 30 aces – his record in the “best of three” match (33 in the “best of five”)

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   July 21, 2026 at 6:17 pm

   ☆ The 2010s decade was surprisingly good for the Slovenian tennis. There was a period of time when
   three Slovenians advanced to the Top 100 reaching some ATP finals and third rounds at Slams. Below the Slovenian trio with their highest ranked and finals:

   No. 43 – Aljaž Bedene (Chennai ’15, Budapest ’17, Buenos Aires ’18, Metz ’19)
   No. 43 – Grega Žemlja (Vienna ’12)
   No. 69 – Blaž Kavčič

   None of them played a fourth round at majors or a quarterfinal at Masters 1K

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