1992 Atlanta F Agassi Sampras stats

[slice serve ace]

Played on har-tru, windy conditions, balls jumping crazy (few Sampras serves ended in the audience over way too short back wall ), this is among the best performances of Agassi against Sampras, who played ok himself. Agassi was simply in the zone on the forehand especially, 18 winners in just 22 games:shock: and the return. Sampras had 4 set points at 5-4 on Agassi's serve, one was telling, Sampras hit huge forehand return which Agassi offbalanced hit for backhand winner down the line. After that, Agassi dominated. Here are the stats.

Agassi def Sampras 7-5, 6-4

1st serve %

agassi... 65 ( 59, 74 )
sampras 68 ( 71, 65 )

1st serve pts won %

agassi... 85 ( 77, 94 )
sampras 82 ( 84, 80 )

2nd serve pts won %

agassi... 67 ( 67, 67 )
sampras 33 ( 20, 45 )

the match was won here basically. both serving at high pct and winning high on 1st serve, but the difference here is huge. agassi winning 2/3, sampras 1/3

service pts won %

agassi... 78 ( 73, 87 )
sampras 67 ( 66, 68 )

78 % of service points won for agassi, very, very high. outside of that one game where he had break points, sampras was barely winning points. agassi lost only 13 points on serve, and only 3 in the second set

aces

agassi... 5 ( 2, 3 )
sampras 6 ( 4, 2 )

double faults

agassi... 0
sampras 2 ( 2, 0 )

winners

agassi... 29 ( 16, 13 )
sampras 18 ( 12, 6 )

18 forehand winners for agassi in 22 games = 0.82 per game

unreturned serves

agassi... 16 ( 8, 8 )
sampras 25 ( 14, 11 )

unreturned serves %

agassi... 27 ( 22, 35 )
sampras 38 ( 40, 35 )

break points

agassi... 2/5 ( 1/1, 1/4 )
sampras 0/4 ( 0/4, 0/0 )

points won

agassi... 69 ( 39, 30 )
sampras 57 ( 33, 24 )

sampras serve&volley

sampras stayed back on 11 of 45 1st serves and didn't S&V at all on 2nd.
in total, served and volleyed on 34 of 66 points = 52 %

 

[hcb0804]

I was there! AT&T Challenge, when it was played at Horseshoe Bend CC.

 

[krosero]

2nd serve pts won %

agassi... 67 ( 67, 67 )
sampras 33 ( 20, 45 )

the match was won here basically. both serving at high pct and winning high on 1st serve, but the difference here is huge. agassi winning 2/3, sampras 1/3

You mentioned Agassi being in the zone on the return, and hitting all those winners -- it sounds like he was aggressive with Pete's second serve.

Makes sense that Sampras stayed back on all his second serves, though probably that is no great surprise on clay.

Something else I noticed is Andre having higher success than Pete on first serve (85 to 82). Maybe clay blunts the force of Pete's first serve, but still, 82% is not exactly low, and Andre topped that.

 

[slice serve ace]

You mentioned Agassi being in the zone on the return, and hitting all those winners -- it sounds like he was aggressive with Pete's second serve.

Oh, absolutely.
Btw, 18 forehand winners in 22 games, have you come across higher ratio in some of your stats? I usually don't break down winners to fh, bh, etc, but this time i noticed that Agassi is hitting a lot of forehand winners, so i counted them

Makes sense that Sampras stayed back on all his second serves, though probably that is no great surprise on clay.

Something else I noticed is Andre having higher success than Pete on first serve (85 to 82). Maybe clay blunts the force of Pete's first serve, but still, 82% is not exactly low, and Andre topped that.

Very, very high bounce ( don't know if the balls, court or wind is to blame, or all together) was somewhat responsible. If you look at the unreturned serves stats, Agassi is low, but his kick serve forced Sampras to return defensively, and on this day, that was all Agassi needed. As for Sampras serve, it seemed monstrous on the first serve, people behind Agassi were ducking to save their lives, but Agassi was destroying his second serve, Agassi's speciality.

 

[krosero]

Btw, 18 forehand winners in 22 games, have you come across higher ratio in some of your stats?

In stats by Moose and myself we have one count that was higher -- Nadal 23 FHs in 22 games vs. Roddick, 2008 Queens.

That's just talking about men's matches (as you can imagine I have a few higher for Graf).

In published counts, which include some winners on judgment calls (unlike our stats), these are a few more I've seen that are higher:

Nadal 26 FHs in 22 games vs. Rochus, 2009 AO
Federer 28 FHs in 25 games vs. Hanescu, 2010 AO
Andreev 38 FHs in 38 games vs. Roddick, 2007 RG

 

[MrCLEAN]

Impressive match given the state of his game at that point of the season. He got off to a verrry slow start that year.