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1. Voo de Mar says:

   May 14, 2026 at 10:24 pm

   Points won by each set: | 40-37, 22-32, 37-26 |
   Unreturned serves:
   30 % Forget – 26 of 86
   36 % Krajicek – 39 of 108

   The top servers of the 90s in their only meeting. Forget [6] is almost seven years older, so at the time they were in two different stages of their careers: Forget was enjoying the best period of his career after several years when his results were disappointing (given his rapid development as a teenager) while Krajicek [38] was just gaining experience, it was his first ATP semi-final indoors. The Frenchman took the tie-break 7/2 getting two mini breaks, one of them when Krajicek stayed behind his second serve on the baseline for the only time in that encounter (Forget was applying the serve-and-volley strategy only behind his first serves with a few exceptions). The beginning of the 2nd set was quite sensational, Krajicek displayed tennis allowing to foresee him as one of the best player of the new decade – he raced to a 3:0* (deuce) lead having not lost a point in the opening three games. Forget was holding more comfortably in the decider and Krajicek’s two volley errors finished a very tight contest – the first of Krajicek’s many battles dominated by big serves when only a few points here and there decided about the final outcome.

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