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1. Voo de Mar says:

   February 27, 2025 at 6:07 pm

   Points won by each set: | 31-35, 40-42, 29-18, 43-41, 24-8 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   26 % Muster – 43 of 161
   32 % Becker – 48 of 150

   Two 28-year-old Teutonic players, just 3 hours 17 minutes (very short match given the number of games), their third and last meeting. Admittedly Muster [13] was enjoying the form of his life at the time, but Becker had won their two previous matches. including a clay-court clash in the same ‘best of five’ format. Becker [3], playing better than anyone expected with very aggressive mindset, avoiding longer rallies, had three mini-match points in the 4th set at 5-all, then led 3:0* in the tie-break and squandered two consecutive match points committing a double fault and producing a forehand error. At 6-all in the tie-break, Becker lobbed Muster only to be passed by forehand of the the Austrian! “I had all the chances in the world,” Becker said. “But he didn’t give up.” “I don’t know how I won the match,” said Muster, who was barely able to finish his semi-final on Saturday because of dehydration. Becker’s third Monte Carlo final, the previous two he lost in dramatic 4-setters, that time he was one point away to win in a similar fashion he lost those two MC finals.

   Muster’s route to his 27th title:
   1 Guy Forget 6-2, 6-2
   2 Bernd Karbacher 6-2, 6-2
   3 Alberto Berasategui 7-6(6), 6-2
   Q David Wheaton 6-4, 6-4
   S Andrea Gaudenzi 6-3, 7-6(5)
   W Boris Becker 4-6, 5-7, 6-1, 7-6(6), 6-0 – 2 m.p.

   ☆ Muster won six titles in 1995 having saved a match point which is an absolute record!

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