Stats for 1984 AO SF: Sukova-Navratilova

[Moose Malloy]

Sukova d Navratilova 1-6, 6-3, 7-5

This ended Martina's 74 match win streak, her 46 match win streak on grass, her streak of 6 consecutive majors(which included a 45 match win streak in majors), & her quest for the Calendar Grand Slam of 1984(but the public address announcer did introduce her by saying she completed the 'Grand Slam' by winning the French Open earlier that year, her 4th consecutive major)

Navratilova was 3-0 vs Sukova going into this match, not having lost a set to her. She finished with a 26-6 edge in the rivalry.

During the 1987 AO Womens Final on ESPN, Cliff Drysdale referred to this match as "the best women's match I have ever seen."

my stats:

Navratilova won 52 of 76 points on 1st serve(68%) & 15 of 38 on 2nd(39%)
She made 76 of 114 1st serves(67%)

Sukova won 34 of 54 points on 1st serve(63%) & 22 of 44 on 2nd(50%)
She made 54 of 98 1st serves(55%)

Navratilova won 109 pts, Sukova 103.

Navratilova had 4 aces, 5 df's
Sukova had 5 aces, 3 df's

Navratilova had 39 winners: 11 fh, 7 bh, 6 fhv, 8 bhv, 7 ov
winners by set: 16, 6, 17

Sukova had 47: 14 fh, 18 bh, 4 fhv, 6 bhv, 5 ov
winners by set: 17, 14, 16

Navratilova had 15 passing shot winners(9 fh, 6 bh)
Sukova had 29(11 fh, 18 bh)

Navratilova had 13 unforced errors, Sukova 9(none in the 3rd set)

Navratilova was 4 of 12 on break points
Sukova was 4 of 13

Navrtailova had 26 unreturned serve, 1 I judged a service winner
Sukova had 18, 2 I judged a service winner

Navratilova was 70 of 118 at net(59%)
Sukova was 39 of 60(65%)

The first set score is misleading, there were more points played in that set(80) than either the 2nd or 3rd sets. 6 of the 7 games went to deuce, & Martina faced break point in 3 of her 4 service games(7 in all)
Very impressive for Sukova to shrug off that 1st set loss & continue to play well.

The last game of the match was pretty amazing. 12 points played, 8 clean winners. No unforced errors. Martina saved 5 match points, 4 with fh winners. Sukova made 1st serves on all 5 match points. Not sure if I've ever seen Martina hit her fh as hard as she she did in this game, what a gutsy performance in defeat.


from SI:

Although Navratilova had lost but once in the past 18 months—on Jan. 15 to Hana Mandlikova—there was a growing feeling on the tour that she was ripe for the taking, that the sheer weight of numbers pressed on her. "For months now, Martina's been playing not to lose, rather than to win," said Don Candy, Pam Shriver's coach. Navratilova's volleys had become more jabs than punches, her attacking slice backhand short and choppy. Also, since she'd started working on a new high-kick serve late last year, her wide and wonderful lefty delivery into the ad court often seemed to have been missing in action.

Only in doubles, where Navratilova's numbers are every bit as impressive but where onlookers don't count out loud, did her game remain in full flower. At Kooyong, not only would she and Shriver become the first women's team ever to win a Calendar Slam, but they also would win their seventh straight Grand Slam championship and an unprecedented 83rd match in a row.

The Navratilova-Sukova semifinal will be remembered as one of the most exciting matches ever played at Kooyong Stadium. Navratilova won the first set at one, but Sukova was marionette-loose, and the score was deceptive. Six of the seven games went to deuce. Certainly, at home in Perth, Margaret Court, the last Calendar Slammer, had no business leaving her TV to go shopping at that point, which is exactly, what Court did.

Sukova pulled on a blue sweater early in the second set and got a break for 4-2. When she held serve for a 5-2 lead, she looked over to Kurz and gestured mischievously that maybe she should walk off now,-because the modest goal they'd set was for her to win five games in a set. Sukova was simply having a dandy time, and she held again to win the set 6-3.

Almost nonchalantly, she powered her way to a two-break 3-0 in the third. Navratilova was volleying shakily and foolishly coming in behind all of her many shallow second serves, which were duck soup for Sukova's accurate artillery. In the women's locker room, the players began to cluster about a TV. Little Carling Bassett, at 17� a whole year and a half younger than the doddering Sukova, sighed, "Oh, if you can just beat her, Helena, you'll be my idol for life." Hoots, catcalls.

Instead, Navratilova came back to tie the set at 4-4. But Sukova wasn't cowed. "When I lost a point, I'd just say, 'Let's try another one and forget that,' " she said later. "I wasn't nervous or anything." Then, to the astonishment of the 12,000 spectators, Sukova got the next break. After Sukova made a sharp volley and Navratilova botched an easier one, Navratilova twice failed to serve wide enough to the ad court. Sukova passed her both times to go ahead 6-5.

Quickly, Sukova went up triple match point. On the practice courts, men laid down their rackets to read history on the scoreboard high on the stadium's rim. In the women's locker room, bedlam reigned. Sukova hit three sterling serves. Navratilova responded with three forehand winners. Sukova earned two more advantages, and Navratilova slugged two more forehand winners. The kid had banged in five excellent first balls, but the champion had saved five match points, streak points, Slam points, history points.

Yet Sukova kept peppering the Navratilova forehand. If that's advertised as being Martina's better wing, she swoops in more naturally off her slice backhand. When, at the next deuce, Sukova finally missed a first serve, to the forehand, she had the audacity to deliver a second to the same side. Shocked, Navratilova pushed the return wide. Match point No. 6. "Dammit," Navratilova muttered. In the mad locker room, if one voice called it out, half a dozen did: The backhand, Helena.... Spin it, three-quarters.... Kick it three-quarters to the bloody backhand. And that, at last, is what Sukova did. The return feathered wide. The streak was over. Mo Connolly and Court are still the only Calendar Girls.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...53/3/index.htm

[Moose Malloy]

here are my stats for the final(Evert d Sukova 6-7, 6-1, 6-3)

did this a while ago, & didn't take as many stats. Quality wasn't great, possibly due to very windy conditions.

both players had 38 winners.

Evert: 15 fh, 16 bh, 2 fhv, 3 bhv, 2 ov
Sukova: 2 fh, 2 bh, 17 fhv, 12 bhv, 5 ov

winners by set
Evert - 10, 14, 14
Sukova - 22, 5, 11

Evert had 28 passing shot winners(12 fh, 16 bh)
Sukova had 1

Evert was 6 of 13 on break points
Sukova was 2 of 13

Evert was 73 of 114 on 1st serves, 64%
Sukova was 41 of 95, 43%

Sukova had 2 aces, 14 df's
Evert had 8 df's

Sukova had 17 unreturned serves, 2 I judged service winners
Evert had 19, 2 I judged service winners

from SI:

Two days later, now in blazing summer heat, Evert Lloyd gave Sukova every chance to surpass the highlight of her mother's career. Evert Lloyd was tight, serving atrociously, humpbacking returns, stuttering with her feet. However, she was also like some cagey old baseball pitcher, even down to blowing on her fingers, knowing she didn't have her good stuff today. But hey, mix it up, change speeds and just try to hang on through the early innings.

Evert Lloyd almost bluffed her way to victory in the first set, but lost 7-4 in the tiebreaker, during which Sukova did her best serving and volleying of the match. Thereafter, though, Sukova lost her serve altogether, fighting her toss in the swirling wind—she got in just 43% of her first balls and double-faulted 14 times—kept drop-shotting without success and, even more suicidally, repeatedly sent approach shots to Evert Lloyd's backhand, a multitude of which Sukova watched come back across her bow. Evert Lloyd won the last two sets 6-1, 6-3. Rotten match, terrific triumph. "Only the real champions win when they don't have their good stuff," John Lloyd said afterward, trying to console a wife who was irritated by the esthetics of the thing.

And so: That's 16 Grand Slam singles championships for Evert Lloyd. She's 1,003-97 for her first 1,100 matches and has had at least one Grand Slam singles title for 11 consecutive years. Bjorn Borg is next in line, with titles in eight straight years. Evert Lloyd says she'll play only one more year, two maximum. And there's one more number. On Friday next, the 21st, our little Chrissie will have another cake. This one will have 30 candles on it.

[BTURNER]

It was a wonderful match, and a well written article. Chris took her down after the loss of the first set.

[jrepac]

sukova, I think, is one of the best players never to win a slam..

she played a fine match against Martina, and had Chris on the ropes early on...

but then she just fell apart...

[SoftTen]

I can't stop reading again. Nice article for sure. At least, the information is valid not based on imagnation.

[krosero]

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

The last game of the match was pretty amazing. 12 points played, 8 clean winners. No unforced errors. Martina saved 5 match points, 4 with fh winners. Sukova made 1st serves on all 5 match points. Not sure if I've ever seen Martina hit her fh as hard as she she did in this game, what a gutsy performance in defeat.

I agree, it was an incredible game. It's a cliche, having your back "against the wall," but that's what you see when a champion is finally forced to that point: there's nothing left to lose and suddenly you see all their former inhibitions lifted, and they just fire away.

I guess that's why when we think of some champions and their greatest moments from a "mental toughness" point of view, we often end up looking at matches they lost: Lendl at 88 USO, Martina here and at 85 USO, Federer at 08 Wimbledon, etc.

Navratilova was volleying shakily and foolishly coming in behind all of her many shallow second serves, which were duck soup for Sukova's accurate artillery.

This comment by Deford was interesting. I remember in one of Martina's matches against Chris (87W), we were discussing how Martina won the match despite having only 21% success on second serve. Here against Sukova she's got 39%, which is not that low considering she lost the match -- but it's kind of low considering that Martina really "won" the match in the sense of winning more points than Sukova (109-103).

It's something I've been watching for in Martina's matches ever since our 87W debate: whether she's coming in too much, or too inflexibly, behind her second serve. It's not always easy to say. In that 87W match, her winning rate on second serve was equally low no matter whether she followed the serve directly into net or stayed back. I'm not sure what those stats would look like in this 84 AO match, but sometimes in her matches it's true that she comes in behind second serves that don't have much on them, and gets passed. But she had to get to net, so it's the SVer's dilemma.

Even in her most aggressive matches she doesn't follow every second ball in as if mindlessly following the Big Game philosophy; she does stay back on some second serves. I just wonder why Martina's success on second serve seems often to be low when we get her stats -- so far.

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

Sukova had 47: 14 fh, 18 bh, 4 fhv, 6 bhv, 5 ov

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

Sukova: 2 fh, 2 bh, 17 fhv, 12 bhv, 5 ov

So of course you expect Sukova's winners to look different when her opponents are as different as Martina and Chris. I just didn't expect them to look so dramatically different. Sukova's winners against Evert, no problem, they're exactly what you'd expect: a SVer getting her winners at net, against a baseliner. But you look at Sukova's winners against Martina and she looks like a baseliner: 32 groundstroke winners.

And I wonder how many were return winners (esp. of 2nd serves).

It's interesting, however, even though Sukova was a SVer, the net stats show Martina coming in twice as much.

[Moose Malloy]

^ just rewatched the 2nd set for some more detailed stats. Martina S&Ved on every service point she played. She was 10 of 16 when she S&Ved on 1st serve, 5 of 7 when she S&Ved on 2nd serve. Sukova hit 6 return winners, 4 off the 1st serve, 2 off the 2nd serve(these 6 were counted in passing shot winners as well)

Sukova only came to net 8 times in this set! She was 6 of 8. S&Ved 5 times on 1st serve. Once on 2nd serve(won all 6 S&V points)
She had a low serve % in this set - 44%, which may explain why her net stats were so low, since she wasn't that comfortable S&Ving on 2nd serve(also had 4 aces in this set, which obviously don't count for net stats, but she was clearly coming in after her serve on those points) Martina came in on Sukova's serve 9 times(won 5 of them)

So of course you expect Sukova's winners to look different when her opponents are as different as Martina and Chris. I just didn't expect them to look so dramatically different.Sukova's winners against Evert, no problem, they're exactly what you'd expect: a SVer getting her winners at net, against a baseliner. But you look at Sukova's winners against Martina and she looks like a baseliner: 32 groundstroke winners.

If I hadn't taken stats on this match, & was asked after watching it what I thought Sukova's winner breakdowns were, I probably would've guessed she had a lot more volley winners, at least equal to her groundstroke winner count. I guess the taking stats show you details that you can't get just by casually watching.

Its a shame none of this match is on youtube.

[suwanee4712]

I think comparing the two matches shows just how different playing Martina was vs. playing Chris. I think a lot of younger fans don't really appreciate how daunting it was not only to have to play two all time greats back to back, but also in having to play two totally different matches tactically speaking. That's something that seems completely lost in the womens game today.

Chris didn't play the Australian very often, but every time she did she got to the finals. The higher bouncing grass courts suited her game very well in my opinion.

Hana skipped this Australian season that year citing fatigue. I can't think of a single Australian womens field that included all of the womens top 5 from 1980-1990.

[BTURNER]

Originally Posted by suwanee4712

I think comparing the two matches shows just how different playing Martina was vs. playing Chris. I think a lot of younger fans don't really appreciate how daunting it was not only to have to play two all time greats back to back, but also in having to play two totally different matches tactically speaking. That's something that seems completely lost in the womens game today.

Chris didn't play the Australian very often, but every time she did she got to the finals. The higher bouncing grass courts suited her game very well in my opinion.

Hana skipped this Australian season that year citing fatigue. I can't think of a single Australian womens field that included all of the womens top 5 from 1980-1990.

It was almost impossible to beat Evert/ Navratilova in consecutive matches. I can think of only three players who did in majors. Austin, Mandlikova and Graf ( Graf did in in 1989 with Evert at 34 and barely playing. She did the same in the Lipton two years earlier without it being a foregone conclusion) To beat the two of them required an entirely different mindset and set of skills. As a few pointed out, it was hard to settle down and get to sleep after the first victory.

[krosero]

Originally Posted by suwanee4712

I think comparing the two matches shows just how different playing Martina was vs. playing Chris. I think a lot of younger fans don't really appreciate how daunting it was not only to have to play two all time greats back to back, but also in having to play two totally different matches tactically speaking.

Chris said afterward, ''I think I gave her more problems than Martina because Helena likes a target at the net."

Originally Posted by suwanee4712

Chris didn't play the Australian very often, but every time she did she got to the finals. The higher bouncing grass courts suited her game very well in my opinion.

Hana skipped this Australian season that year citing fatigue. I can't think of a single Australian womens field that included all of the womens top 5 from 1980-1990.

Chris said in '82 that she wanted to win the title, particularly with the field so strong that year. Strong in that context may have been only relatively strong, but it was certainly stronger than the men's field in which none of the Top Ten attended. I wonder why Chris and Martina started showing up again at the AO in 1981 (Martina actually in '80), while the men took a few more years. I don't know but maybe one reason they showed up in '81 and '82 was because the top spot for the year was still in question, which was not the case for the men. In '83 the top men showed up at the AO and that year the race for the top spot was not so clear-cut (though the race was definitely over among the women).

[Moose Malloy]

Here are stats I took on the '87 Eastbourne Final, Sukova d Navratilova 7-6(7-5) 6-3

This win snapped Martina's 69 match win streak on English grass(last loss was vs Mandlikova at '81 Wimbledon. She won 5 straight Eastbourne & Wimbledon titles after that)

Martina had to finish off Shriver in a SF match earlier in the day(won 6-4 4-6 6-3, picking up from 4-3 in the 1st)

Sukova had beaten Evert the day before 4-6, 6-4, 8-6, coming back from 5-2 down in the 3rd(and also overcoming 16 df's)

Martina was 16-1 vs Sukova going into this match.

Sukova served at 56%(50 of 89)
Martina served at 67%(47 of 70)

Sukova won 31 of 50 points on 1st serve(62%)
She won 24 of 39 on 2nd(61%)

Martina won 31 of 47 points on 1st serve(66%)
She won 9 of 23 on 2nd(39%)

Sukova had 31 non service winners: 4 fh, 13 bh, 7 fhv, 4 bhv, 3 ov
Martina had 36: 12 fh, 8 bh, 7 fhv, 7 bhv, 2 ov

Sukova had 14 passing shot winners(3 fh, 11 bh)
Martina had 18(10 fh, 8 bh)

Sukova had 2 aces, 3 df's
Martina had 1 ace, 3 df's

Sukova had 21 unreturned serves, 4 were service winners
8 were 2nd serves
Martina had 21 as well, 1 service winner. 3 were 2nd serves.

Sukova was 4 of 7 on break points(Martina made 1st serves on 5 of them)
Martina was 2 of 7(Sukova made 1st serves on 4 of them)

Sukova won 85 points, Martina 74

The first set was very entertaining. 44 clean winners. Martina had a 5-0 lead, hitting 12 winners in those 5 games. Don't think it was a choke, Sukova started hitting a ton of winners the rest of the set(with Martina still making a lot as well)

But like with the AO loss, you wonder if Martina should have stayed back more on 2nd serves(which she started doing some in the 2nd) since Sukova started treeing with her returns.

[Moose Malloy]

some aticles I came across:

EASTBOURNE, England - Martina Navratilova's seven-month string of frustration continued through the last tuneup for Wimbledon on Saturday when she was beaten by Helena Sukova 7-6, 6-3 in the final of the Eastbourne grass-court championships. Navratilova, in the first set, squandered a 5-0 lead to Sukova, her victim in the previous two finals here. Navratilova had won the last five Eastbourne titles.

"Right now I'm not exactly brimming with confidence. But I'll still go into Wimbledon as the favorite," Navratilova said.

"I'm sure I'll get that extra bit of inspiration from playing on Centre Court. But right now, I'm feeling down."

Navratilova always has placed great importance on this pre-Wimbledon tournament. On each of the six occasions she won here, she went on to win the Wimbledon title.

Because of rain on Friday, Navratilova had to finish her semifinal against doubles partner Pam Shriver before playing the final.

On Saturday, when she lost in the final of the pre-Wimbledon tournament in Eastbourne, which she had won five consecutive times, she wasted a 5-0 first-set lead against Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia, and double-faulted at set point in the tiebreaker.

''I'm not finished yet,'' she told a cheering crowd at Eastbourne. But in a more reflective mood, she said: ''I'm putting too much into the fact that I'm 30. Maybe, I am feeling the pressure that much more. I've been able to bounce back in the past, but I get very disappointed with myself for the way I've been falling apart at the drop of a hat.''

''I know there is nothing wrong with my game,'' Navratilova added. ''There is nothing wrong with me technically. At this point, it's all emotional. It's in my head.''

The mind, though, can play dirty tricks. Navratilova recently switched from a Yonex racquet, which she is paid to endorse, to a Dunlop, the model used by Steffi Graf, the 18-year-old West German who is No. 2 in the world and heir to Navratilova's throne. It was an impulsive move, perhaps made in panic.

Pam Shriver knows Navratilova as well as anyone. She lost a difficult three-set match to her friend and doubles partner in the semifinals at Eastbourne, squandering an opportunity to beat her for the first time since 1982. ''On the court,'' Shriver said, ''that little bit of arrogance is gone. It will be interesting to see how Martina will react to this.''

''Losing at Eastbourne was huge for Martina,'' she added. ''It was more damaging than winning would have been helpful. The confidence factor is so fragile. You can lose it on a backhand volley and get it back the same way.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/22/sp...ted=all&src=pm

WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND — The sun shone on Martina Navratilova Wednesday, but it was during Tuesday`s rain delay that she first found a ray of hope in her season of doubt.

Navratilova watched a British Broadcasting Co. replay of her upset loss to Helena Sukova in the Wimbledon warm-up at Eastbourne, which ended Navratilova`s winning streak on English grass courts at 69 matches.

WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND — The sun shone on Martina Navratilova Wednesday, but it was during Tuesday`s rain delay that she first found a ray of hope in her season of doubt.

Navratilova watched a British Broadcasting Co. replay of her upset loss to Helena Sukova in the Wimbledon warm-up at Eastbourne, which ended Navratilova`s winning streak on English grass courts at 69 matches.

No one needed to get off to a solid start more than the 30-year-old Navratilova, who has been searching for reasons for her decline. In last week`s loss, Navratilova squandered a 5-0 first-set lead against Sukova, who won five straight games and took the match 7-6, 6-3.

The score didn`t change, but watching the BBC replay during the rain delay made Navratilova feel a little better about her game.

``Helena did not miss one shot in those five games,`` said Navratilova.
``It wasn`t me. I did play well. I just needed a little luck.``

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...atilova-porwik

[Moose Malloy]

WIMBLEDON, England -- Martina Navratilova, the defending champion, could win Wimbledon.

But so could the sensational Steffi Graf.

Or maybe, Helena Sukova will win here, after the way she conquered Eastbourne last week.

Or Pam Shriver, a terrific grass-court player who should win a Grand Slam event one of these days.

``What about me?`` asked Chris Evert.

The three-time Wimbledon champion is feeling a bit slighted at the All- England Lawn Tennis Club. Folks are talking about her love life and forgetting her tennis. Evert reminded them Wednesday by routing Sara Gomer of Great Britain 6-1, 6-0 in the first round.

``I definitely think I have a shot this year,`` said Evert, the third seed, who played her 1,300th professional match and won No. 1,183. ``I`ve had the second best record of anyone this year (40-5, compared to Graf`s 40-0). I think this is the most interesting Wimbledon in years, but I`m playing well and I have a good chance.``

``Wimbledon is as open as it`s ever been,`` said Navratilova, who lost only 16 points to Porwick. ``All the top players are capable of winning.``

Navratilova, despite her Year of Losing Everything, is primed to win her eighth Wimbledon -- and sixth in a row.

``I`m always confident I can win this tournament,`` said Navratilova, who has won 35 consecutive matches here, since losing to Hana Mandlikova in the 1981 semifinals. ``My game is there. I just need to stay tough mentally.``

Navratilova watched a tape of her 7-6, 6-3 Eastbourne loss to Sukova during a rain delay Tuesday and came away feeling better about her game.

``I tried to remember what happened after I was up five-love and I saw that Helena hit all these winners,`` she said. ``In the second set, I was mentally tired from playing Shriver in a tough semifinal, but I felt I played well. There`s nothing wrong with my tennis.``

``Martina has to be favored,`` said Evert, who has lost to Navratilova in five Wimbledon finals (but has beaten her in two semifinals, their designated showdown this year).

``Of all the players at this Wimbledon, Martina and I are the angriest,`` Evert said. ``Everyone is talking about the changing of the guard. It may look that way, now or in the near future. But Martina and I are both champions who have won this tournament and all the Grand Slam tournaments and we have a lot of pride.

``The young players -- Graf, (Gabriela) Sabatini, Sukova -- are all getting a lot of publicity. I don`t let any of that bother me. Five years ago, when I was No. 1, I was more sensitive. Hana would say something or Kathy Jordan would say something and I would get defensive and say, `What do you mean?`

``Now, I know I`m going to have my bad days, but I know I`m going to have my good days, too. I was playing well at the French Open, and then I played terrible and lost to Martina in the semifinals. I don`t know why. But I know, on my good days, I can beat anyone. At this stage in my career, I`m taking it one day at a time and not listening to anything.``

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/198...on-chris-evert

[Joe Pike]

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

Here are stats I took on the '87 Eastbourne Final, Sukova d Navratilova 7-6(7-5) 6-3

This win snapped Martina's 69 match win streak on English grass ....

Quite interesting how much trouble Martina had with Sukova. Considering for example that Sukova lost 21 matches in a row to Steffi Graf from 1986 through 1994, with Sukova winning only 4 sets.

In 1987-89 alone there were 11 wins for Steffi with 22-0 sets and Sukova winning more than 3 games in only 4 sets!

[krosero]

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

Sukova had beaten Evert the day before 4-6, 6-4, 8-6, coming back from 5-2 down in the 3rd(and also overcoming 16 df's)

And this after serving 14 doubles against Evert in the AO final.

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

The first set was very entertaining. 44 clean winners.

That's an awful lot of (non-service) winners for one set. Offhand I recall Becker and Agassi hitting 39 non-service winners between them in the third set, during their Davis Cup match. I can't think of any over 40.

How many points were in the set?

[krosero]

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

Martina was 16-1 vs Sukova going into this match.

She'd won their last 13 meetings. Of course she also had a run of 13 against Evert. Not to mention 21 straight over Garrison, and 29 straight over Shriver.

[Moose Malloy]

That's an awful lot of (non-service) winners for one set

43 were non service winners.

86 points in the 1st set.

[krosero]

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

43 were non service winners.

Here's another, ironically also by Becker and Agassi: 40 winners between them in their 1995 Wimbledon SF, fourth set. If you throw in Becker's aces it's 47 clean winners.

But that set was exceptionally long (108 points).

Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

86 points in the 1st set.

That's not even a particularly long set.

[NadalAgassi]

Those stats show that Sukova often got up for playing Martina. 18 backhand passing shot winners? Her backhand isnt even a good passing shot normally. In fact all she usually did was slice it. Also 0 unforced errors in the 3rd set, very unusual for her game which was high risk.