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1. Voo de Mar says:

   September 20, 2026 at 4:02 pm

   Points won by each set: | 24-14, 29-17 |
   Unreturned serves:
   32 % Becker – 13 of 40
   18 % Woodforde – 8 of 44

   Just 55 minutes, the shortest final of the year. “It was unexpectedly easy,” said Becker, the No. 2 seed. “I kept hitting big serves and being very aggressive from the baseline.” Woodforde [53] is considered as one of the best doubles players of the 90s, he was a dangerous opponent in singles too in that decade, but quite frequently he was suffering overwhelming defeats because he didn’t possess any big shot in his repertoire. In the L.A. final he didn’t push Becker [11] even to one ‘deuce’ in eight games as a receiver. Two years later they face each other in the Aussie Open semifinal, and Becker wins it after a one-sided encounter again.

   Becker’s route to his 40th title:
   1 Grant Stafford 7-5, 6-3
   2 Chuck Adams 7-6(4), 6-1
   Q Karsten Braasch 2-6, 7-6(1), 6-2 – 2 m.p. ☆
   S Jason Stoltenberg 6-4, 6-4
   W Mark Woodforde 6-2, 6-2

   ☆ Braasch led 3:0 in 2nd set with a double break, at 5:4 (40/15) he committed a double fault (his first serve was almost an ace), then at 40/30 he got a warning for violating the 25-second time limit between serves which made him nervous and caused his three simple backhand errors in a row! If Braasch had won that quarterfinal, it’d have been the biggest victory of his life.

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