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1. Voo de Mar says:

   August 29, 2026 at 6:05 pm

   Points won by each set: | 34-30, 31-24, 27-32, 29-22 |
   Unreturned serves:
   14 % Mecir – 16 of 114
   17 % Nystrom – 20 of 115

   Using a wooden-graphite composite (Snauwaert “Le Grande”), when all top players had already switched to graphite/aluminium racquets in the mid 80s, the bizarre 22-year-old Mecir [15] arguably played the best tennis of his life in the second week of the US Open having eliminated three Top 10 players in back-to-back matches: Wilander [2], Nystrom [7] and Becker [3]. Against the Swedes he was attacking the net a lot in all possible combinations (against Wilander with significantly higher frequency behind the serve); against Becker, he was forced to deal with the opponent’s big serve. The scoreline of the first two sets against Nystrom is a bit misleading. There was 4-all and 40/15 for the serving Swede when a strange period lasting more or less 50 minutes occurred when he was regularly losing games putting himself in a position to win them – Mecir held four times in the 2nd set saving break points which is unprecedented, and broke Nystrom twice winning four points in succession from 0/30! The Swede decided to accelerate his forehand shots when the 3rd set kicked off, and it helped him to create a double break point at 1-all in the 4th set after winning the 3rd set in a convincing style. At the beginning of the 4th set the rain interrupted their match twice, and Nystrom somehow lost his good forehand rhythm – Mecir was still applying the same strategy, and grabbed the last four games (each of them “4:2” in points). Three complex matches in a row against higher ranked opponents it was too much for the (Czecho)Slovak who completely failed in his first major final.

   Serve & volley: Mecir 3/7, Nystrom 1/2

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