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Originally Posted by Moose Malloy
do you know if rain delayed the start of the tournament? if not, its absurd that players were expected to play 6 best of 5 matches in 7 days. Wonder how many other slams had this format back then. The atp site says the event started on 12/21/74, wouldn't be the first time they're wrong.
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The announcers didn't mention rain. I don't know why this weird schedule came about.
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Originally Posted by Moose Malloy
thanks. so the winner counts on these matches should be a bit higher.
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Definitely, in order to compare with today's stats you'd have to count service winners.
What was Roddick's count, do you still have it?