Match Stats/Report - Agassi vs Edberg, Davis Cup semi-final rubber, 1992

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Andre Agassi (USA) beat Stefan Edberg (Sweden) 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(1), 6-3 in a Davis Cup semi-final rubber, 1992 on indoor clay in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

The result gave USA a 2-0 lead and they would go onto win the match 4-1. Agassi would win his second (dead) rubber over Nicklas Kulti, while Edberg would lose the doubles rubber in partnership with Anders Jarryd to the team of John McEnroe and Pete Sampras

USA would go onto win the event, beating Switzerland in the final at home on indoor hard court
Edberg had recently won the US Open on hard court while Agassi had won his first Slam at Wimbledon on grass earlier in the year

Agassi won 144 points, Edberg 134

Edberg serve-volleyed off all but 2 first serves and about half the time off seconds

(Note: I’m missing serve direction for 1 point and have made an educated guess about another
Set 3, Game 5, Point 13 - an Edberg ace, serve direction unknown
Set 4, Game 4, Point 2 - an Edberg serve marked to be to FH and returned the same by Agassi)

Serve Stats
Agassi...
- 1st serve percentage (97/138) 70%
- 1st serve points won (62/97) 64%
- 2nd serve points won (25/41) 61%
- Aces 4
- Double Faults 2
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (32/138) 23%

Edberg....
- 1st serve percentage (77/140) 55%
- 1st serve points won (56/77) 73%
- 2nd serve points won (27/63) 43%
- Aces 5 (1 bad bounce related)
- Double Faults 7
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (36/140) 26%

Serve Patterns
Agassi served...
- to FH 30%
- to BH 69%
- to Body 1%

Edberg served....
- to FH 27%
- to BH 64%
- to Body 9%

Return Stats
Agassi made...
- 97 (44 FH, 53 BH), including 8 runaround FHs
- 13 Winners (6 FH, 7 BH)
- 31 Errors, comprising...
- 6 Unforced (6 FH), including 5 runaround FHs
- 25 Forced (9 FH, 16 BH), including 2 runaround FHs
- Return Rate (97/133) 73%

Edberg made...
- 104 (33 FH, 71 BH), including 2 runaround FHs & 24 return-approaches
- 4 Winners (2 FH, 2 BH)
- 28 Errors, comprising...
- 21 Unforced (9 FH, 12 BH), including 1 runaround FH & 11 return-approach attempts
- 7 Forced (2 FH, 5 BH)
- Return Rate (104/136) 76%

Break Points
Agassi 6/12 (7 games)
Edberg 5/12 (7 games)

Winners (including returns, excluding serves)
Agassi 48 (25 FH, 16 BH, 1 FHV, 2 BHV, 3 OH, 1 BHOH)
Edberg 48 (6 FH, 6 BH, 16 FHV, 16 BHV, 4 OH)

Agassi had 31 passes - 12 returns (5 FH, 7 BH) & 19 regular (11 FH, 8 BH)
- FH returns - 3 cc, 1 inside-out, 1 inside-in
- BH returns - 3 cc, 2 inside-out, 2 inside-in
- regular FHs - 4 cc (1 at net), 1 dtl at net (can reasonably be called a running-down-drop-shot at net), 1 dtl/inside-out, 5 lobs
- regular BHs - 4 cc, 2 dtl, 1 inside-out/dtl, 1 longline

- regular (non-pass) FHs - 2 cc (1 at net), 1 dtl return, 4 inside-in (1 return), 1 inside-out/dtl at net, 1 longline
- regular BH - 1 dtl

- 3 from serve-volley points (1 FHV, 2 BHV), all first volleys with 1 BHV being a net chord dribbler

- 1 other OH was played on bounce and another was net-to-net shot

Edberg had 28 from serve-volley points -
- 17 first volleys (7 FHV, 9 BHV, 1 OH)... 1 FHV was a net chord dribbler
- 11 second 'volleys' (5 FHV, 2 BHV, 3 OH, 1 FH at net)

- 5 from return-approach points (3 FHV, 2 BHV)

- FHs - 1 cc, 1 dtl return, 2 inside-out, 1 net chord dribbler return
- BHs - 5 dtl (2 returns), 1 longline

Errors (excluding serves and returns)
Agassi 48
- 20 Unforced (7 FH, 11 BH, 1 FHV, 1 BHV)... with 1 FH at net pass attempt & 1 BH pass attempt
- 28 Forced (13 FH, 15 BH)... with 1 FH at net pass attempt
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 48.5

Edberg 57
- 28 Unforced (8 FH, 12 BH, 3 FHV, 5 BHV)
- 29 Forced (8 FH, 6 BH, 8 FHV, 7 BHV)
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 52.1

(Note 1: All 1/2 volleys refer to such shots played at net. 1/2 volleys played from other parts of the court are included within relevant groundstroke numbers)

(Note 2: the Unforced Error Forcefulness Index is an indicator of how aggressive the average UE was. The numbers presented are keyed on 4 categories - 20 defensive, 40 neutral, 50 attacking and 60 winner attempt)

Net Points & Serve-Volley
Agassi was...
- 15/22 (68%) at net, including...
- 6/7 (86%) serve-volleying, all 1st serves
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- 0/1 forced back

Edberg was...
- 89/145 (61%) at net, including...
- 65/99 (66%) serve-volleying, comprising...
- 49/70 (70%) off 1st serve and...
- 16/29 (55%) off 2nd serve
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- 13/24 (54%) return-approaching
- 1/2 forced back

Match Report
Good, fun match. Edberg serve-volleys, return-approaches and returns very aggressively, while playing quite aggressively from the baseline. Agassi return-passes and passes as he’s forced and has to adjust his serving and baseline play to cope with Edberg’s sharp returns and shot-making off the ground. In due time, Edberg’s success with aggressive returning and going for winners from the back drops and Agassi has better of things

Whole bunch of stats have come out almost even. Not least of them -

Break points - Agassi 6/12, Edberg 5/12, with both having them in 7 games

If that looks close as can be, it would generally favour Agassi (beyond obvious of having broken once extra) in context of match up as Agassi tends to give up a few easy holds against serve-volleyers, while picking and choosing his moments to strike returning

That’s not entirely true here because Edberg returns very, very aggressively. Return-approaches off all sorts - chip-charges, raw charges, hit-&-runs, behind big dtl returns - and against both serves. His returning effectively puts him in same boat as Agassi, viz. likely to give up some easy holds missing returns, but when he lands them, watch out

All the non-tiebreak sets are one break differentials. And Agassi serves for the first set at 5-3 before a particularly hot run from Edberg sees the latter take it

Action is never bad but does fluctuate. Its at its best in first two sets when winners rain down from both players. Thereafter, winners shift to forced errors. Edberg’s red-hot with the return and dispatching BH dtl winners early on and outplays Agassi from the baseline in the first set. Rest of match, Agassi is solid as steel from the back and gradually ups his power to thwart a continuation. Edberg’s success regularly looking for winning returns also goes down as match goes on. The contest between Edberg’s volleying and Agassi’s passing moves from both players dealing in winners to Agassi doing just enough to force volleying errors going wide. Not many shoelace volleys for Edberg to make

In addition to the break points, other stats that have come out similar (or identical)
- unreturned serves Agassi 23%, Edberg 26%
- winners both 48
- FEs Agassi 28, Edberg 29

Areas that are different include
- double faults Agassi 2, Edberg 7 (which proves to be significant)
- UEs Agassi 20, Edberg 28

Very similar similarities, and small different differences. Remarkable, given how completely differently the two go about the game
Edberg at net 145 times, Agassi 22
36/48 Edberg winners being volleys/OHs, 41/48 of Agassi’s being groundstrokes

Basic Stats, Serve, Return & Serve-volley
First serve in - Agassi 70%, Edberg 55%
First serve won - Agassi 64%, Edberg 73%
Second serve won - Agassi 61%, Edberg 43%

Those stats are a bit strange. Would expect Agassi to win fairly comfortably and be threatening to break considerably more often than he in fact ends up doing

Edberg virtually serve-volleys all the time off first serves (stays back twice, wins both points)
Off second serve
- serve-volleys 52% of time
- wins 55% serve-volleying and 41% not serve-volleying

Obvious implication that he should be second serve-volleying more often. Its not so obvious in heat of action. Agassi hammers returns regularly and at return-rate of 73%, its not the sort of thing one would be delighted to volley. The hammer and tongs returning is particularly present early on, which is also when Edberg’s at his most successful rallying from the back

No arguing with numbers though. You could say Edberg’s misses a trick in not adjusting to changing dynamics of Agassi returning less hostilely and the ground battle turning against him after the first set. Volleying Agassi’s returning might not be a tea party, but playing him from the baseline is apparently 14% even less of one

- Agassi’s near even winning rates across his 2 serves. He doesn’t have a strong first serve - only 7/28 return errors he draws have been marked FEs - and does have a decent second. And Edberg goes after both serves vigorously with the return

Conventional chip-charges are limited to second serves, but firsts get approached against too. Even more aggressively in fact, though the seconds get the extra rough treatment too

Charge-approach returns. Hitting dtl and approaching. Edberg’s got 24 return-approaches altogether and 11 errors going for them. The errors are only clear cut approach attempts, so an under-representation; Edberg often approaches behind normal enough returns that, had he missed, would not have been marked approach-attempts

He’s also got 4 return winners - almost all of them would-be approaches too - the charge and dtl ones

 

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Is what he does sustainable? If it isn’t, he doesn’t seem to have noticed for 2 sets where he pulls it all off regularly. Thereafter, the errors go up, the successful ones go down and return-approaches are largely limited to conventional chip-charges. Agassi also takes to serving bigger first serves (bigger. Not big) to keep Edberg honest and one it works. Edberg’s aggressive returning for first two sets is closer to wanton than measured or choosily aggressive. He keeps looking for chances to continue doing so, but against beefed up serving, falters more and has to be more choosey

For all that, he’s won just 13/24 return-approach points. Throw in 11 clear errors trying, and you can see why Agassi’s won bulk of his service points. Takes some amazing passing to make that happen

And a very good job by Agassi to only double fault twice or 5% of second serves. His serve is under a lot of pressure. Edberg’s of course, is under even more and doubles 7 times or 11%

Edberg’s first serve wouldn’t be much of a threat sans serve-volleying and it gets early taken pounding from Agassi’s return. Pace of Agassi’s return might actually help Edberg putaway volleys, but when they’re beyond even that, they’re liable to win points

13 return winners from Agassi, 11 of them passes. 11 return-pass winners against Edberg’s 99 serve-volleys. Not bad. Has room for improvement

Particularly good aggressive returns from both players are the BH inside-outs, which both hit very rarely

Edberg wins both his inside-out chip-charges, with the return itself doing the work. Since he doesn’t miss any, why not try a few more? He needs all the help he can get because predictable directions are a handicap against the strong passing of Agassi

And Agassi knocks away 2 BH inside-out return pass winners. These are controlled and intentionally played shots, not forced pokes or his returning it any way he can

Generally (i.e. beyond this match), both players employ BH inside-outs returns in each’s respective context rarely, with Agassi vastly preferring inside-in or down-the-middle and Edberg chip-charging down-the-middle

Both are also generally successful doing what they do, but seems no reason not to go inside-out more often. Especially Agassi, who faced a plethora of serve-volleyers. I’ve never seen him off in his hitting vigour with the shot, and its not rare for his stock down-the-middle and inside-ins to not be making headway. Still, he almost always sticks to those

Action - Net
Edberg’s at net 145/278 points of the match 52% of all points. Discarding double faults, aces, and Agassi’s unreturned serves, that rises to 145/228 or 64%. Good few approach errors in there too - including 11 of the return (which is included amidst Agassi’s unreturneds)

Edberg always seeking net in short

Serve-volleys off all but 2 first serves (comes to net and hits a BHV winner on 1, the other is his last service point of the match and draws a return error). Off second serve, serve-volleys 52% of the time

Wins 16/29 or 55% second serve-volleying and 11/27 or 41% not. Despite that, probably a good idea to not second serve-volley too often
Serve-volleying, he has 17 first volley winners, 11 second ‘volley’ ones. For clay, a first volley heavy yield.

In all, he has 37 ‘volley’ winners (including a BH at net serve-volleying), 8 UEs, 15 FEs
Agassi has 31 passing winners (16 FH, 15 BH), 28 ground FEs (vast bulk passes) and 2 passing UEs

And that is one great contest, for any number of reasons

- High lot of first volley winners speaks to how good Edberg’s punching and decisiveness on the volley is. Even he’s not in habit of always being able to get volleys through on clay, but he does here (court is relatively quick for clay - or to be more accurate, not slow)
- more volleying winners than passing errors forced is another indicator of decisiveness of Edberg’s volleying. Again, quite rare for clay
- Agassi with more passing winners than FEs speaking to how well he passes
- Agassi with more passing winners than Edberg’s volleying errors, ditto
- Edberg with a lot more volleying FEs than UEs, with UEs low in relation to 145 approaches

Throw in meaty stock passing, coupled with Agassi’s early return position yielding relatively tough ‘routine’ volleys for Edberg to begin with (as in, having less time to play the volley than he would against almost anyone else). That’s not necessarily a good thing from Agassi’s point of view. The power of his returns helps Edberg knock away volley winners too, which would be harder to do (and need more active effort from Edberg) to do against less powerful shots

Agassi wins a crucial point when he throws in a softer return, that catches Edberg out who mistimes and misses it. Mixing up pace of returns can be very effective against serve-volleyers. Its not Agassi’s way though and he sticks to his usual, ‘only-knows-one-way-to-return’ style, that being biffing the ball

Edberg’s serve is not challenging in itself of either pace or width, so Agassi can reach and smack the returns the way he likes. He gets very few returns to Edberg’s feet. Somewhat due to how quick Edberg is to reach net. He’d face more shoelace volleys on a faster surface with ball reaching Agassi faster and Agassi’s well struck returns coming back that much faster too

Powerful stock returns, at good 73% return rate. Pace and width the challenging parts of it from Agassi. And lovely volleying from Edberg, punching them smartly to decisively finish, with good net coverage

Both the passing and the volleying is very balanced across wing

Edberg across FHV and BHV
- both with 16 winners
- UEs - FHV 3, BHV 5
- FEs - FHV 8, BHV 7

Agassi across FH and BH on the pass
- 16 FH winners, 15 BH
- FEs (not necessarily passes) FH 13, BH 15

Fun part of this match up is there’s no need to target a side. Both players do what they do equally well off either wing

Dynamics change some over time. For first 2 sets, its winners galore. Next 2, fewer winners and more FEs. From Agassi’s point of view, that’s good shift. He’s able to get passes just wide enough to force volleying errors. Not flagrantly, no-chance-in-hell errors (to hit passes good enough for those is just as risky as going for the winner), but just enough. And they are forced errors

For all the hotness of the contest, the breaks actually come through lapses, with Edberg making UEs and double faulting. In that sense, ultimate result is determined by consistency or how long Edberg can go making routine volleys. You can’t make ‘em all, and Agassi’s stock force is more likely than other players’ to draw missed routine volleys. But the balance of equality is maintained by both players being excellent - Edberg volleying, Agassi passing

Agassi ends up 9/15 rallying to net. Not important. He’s also 6/7 serve-volleying, which is a nice card to have one’s sleeve. Always behind serves out wide to BH and looking for volley to open court

A final, general point about Edberg’s grace at net. One small part that maintains it is a cheat and not to his credit. When he’s faced with a winning, wide powerful pass that he can lunge for with prospects of missing the ball altogether high and liklihood of making the volley even if he gets racquet on it not good - he usually doesn’t lunge but lets the ball through for winner

Lunging and missing the volley would detract from the ever-present sense of grace and style he carries, but most players do lunge for them. What do they have to lose by so doing, other than not looking graceful and in control? By not trying, Edberg maintains his stately grace. Its like not taking a shot to preserve your winning percentage when going for shots

Agassi has something similar going on with his returning. By standing so close in, he makes serves look better than they are and the perception of his returns being stunning because balls on him in a flash and his winning return is made like a reflex action is one of “what an amazing return against such a powerful serve, no one else could do that”

No one else has to. Take a step back and those same serves no longer look unanswerably good because they’re not unanswerably good to begin with

 

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Play - Baseline
Plenty of baseline action too. Edberg’s very aggressive here too, particularly off the BH and initially, outplays his opponent

UEs in baseline rallies
FHs - Agassi 6, Edberg 8
BHs - Agassi 10, Edberg 12

Broken down by parts
In first set, - Agassi 11, Edberg 2,
Next 3 sets - Agassi 5, Edberg 18

Early on, Agassi with normal power off the ground. And Edberg willing to be aggressive, especially with his BH. Thereafter, Agassi beefing up his hitting to prevent a repeat

For starters, that’s a great showing by Edberg to outplay a normal Agassi in set 1. And second, even more remarkable from Agassi thereafter. Usually, when player ups his hitting, it leads to more errors as cost of pressuring opponent

Ground winners (including clean returns)
- Agassi 8 (7 FH, 1 BH), Edberg 10 (4 FH, 6 BH)

Agassi also forcing errors (about 5-6) Edberg negligible, so Agassi getting little better of things

In line with uber aggressive returning, Edberg looks to be the aggressor from back too. Especially in going for BH dtl winners. He’s got 4 winners (excluding 2 returns) that way and misses 3-5 others (he’s got 14 winner attempt UEs total, but just 8 volleying UEs - so at least 6 baseline winner attempt misses). While Agassi has 6 winner attempt total

It’s a test for Agassi to thwart it and one which he passes with bright if not flying colours. His hitting after the first set is good to peg back and keep a thirsty Edberg from getting too many dashing ideas

Edberg’s winners tend to product of shot-making (taking on the winner from normal position), Agassi’s FH heavy yield more point construction (pushing opponent out of position and/or drawing weak ball before going for the kill shot), including with the serve

Particularly telling is Edberg winning just 41% staying back second serve-points. Agassi canes second returns, and takes to moving around to whack FHs against them (many are body or BH-body’ish), so Edberg, gaining a few return errors (Agassi has 6 UEs there), but usually on back foot to start those rallies

Main takeaway from all this is that Agassi’s service games takes on the same nature as Edberg’s, despite polar opposite enthusiasm for serve-volleying

Edberg going for very ambitious aggressive returns off all kinds and against both serves and very aggressive from the baseline leads to missing good lot of returns and potentially point ending groundies… but he’s liable to get a hot for a period (let alone just 1 game) with it to snag a break. (and of course, he’s net seeking in return games from rallies too)

Similar to Edberg serve-volleying so often and so well against a potent return showing. Agassi’s forced to counter-attack and does it well enough that he’s liable to aggressively break sooner or later

Match Progression
Blazing start with two players trading breaks. Edberg goes first - winning 2 return-approach points (1 against a first serve, in fact, the very first point of the match), whacking a FH inside-out winner and forcing an error with a BH dtl

Agassi hits back just as hard - his first return point results in FH cc return-pass winner against first serve, he adds a BH dtl pass one and flagrantly forces a FHV error to the feet before Edberg double faults to complete the game

Action continues in similar vein all set - Edberg’s returning and ground aggression taking the eye as its not a given, but Agassi return-passing providing quite a test too

The rain of winners turns into a flood in game 8, as Agassi breaks in 14 point game. All 8 points he wins in the game are winners (FH inside-in return-pass, BH cc pass, FH cc pass, FH cc pass against an OH, FH return inside-in, FH lob, net-to-net OH and BH cc return-pass). Edberg has 3 winners in the game too

That leaves Agassi to serve for the set at 5-3. He doesn’t win another game. Some luck for Edberg to gain first break with a net chord dribbling return winner and a net chord pop up ball that allows him to take net. And mostly Agassi ground errors account for the next break

Agassi with 5/6 and 7/8 first serves in the two games he’s broken, while Edberg holds both games to 15 to wrap up the set

Second set is if anything, even better. Just the 1 break and it’s the only one with break point in it but competitive holds. And the winners still raining down, Edberg still returning with a vengeance. One change is Agassi hitting harder from the back to at least keep Edberg from collaring baseline rallies as well

The 2 share 7 winners in a row in game 5, which Agassi holds with an unreturned serve after that. He starts the game after with a lovely FH lob winner and eventually goes on to break in 12 point game. Amidst fireworks from both players, Edberg double faults on one of his game points and the game ends with Edberg making 2 BHV UEs. First 1 is an easy, high putaway, but second one is actually tricky because Agassi’s return is rolled in slower from the power stuff he’d been dishing out, and the change of pace catches Edberg out, though its perfect height to be putaway too

Winners rains down for rest of set too and Edberg still with dangerous return-approaches, but Agassi wins 3/4 such points across 2 remaining holds (2 winners and a forced volleying error) to level match. 0 UEs in the set for Agassi, to go along with top class passing

Action changes some in the third set. Agassi serves harder and starts overpowering Edberg from baseline (as opposed to just keeping him honest), but remains almost as error-free as previous set. Starts moving over to whack FH returns more too, regardless of Edberg serve-volleying or not

Edberg is encouraged (if not forced) to dial down to only conventional chip-charge return-approaches (as opposed to whacking returns or charging them) and almost all against second serves. Agassi passes powerfully and well against it, but a little less decisively than earlier. He draws wide volleying errors rather than hits clean passing winners

1 break each in the set and break points read Agassi 1/3 (2 games), Edberg 1/6 (3 games). But its Agassi who serves 38 points in set, to Edberg’s 43 heading into the tiebreak
5 long games in middle of set (3 on Agassi’s serve), starting with Agassi holding for 2-2

He saves 2 break points with Edberg return-approaching 4 times in 12 point game and has 2 break points of his own game after which lasts 16 points and ends with Agassi missing 2 big runaround returns against second serves Edberg stays back on

2 then trade breaks. Edberg breaks to 15, with Agassi missing a couple of attacking BHs and a regulation FHV on break point. Power return passes see him get the break right back in a deuce game, with Edberg double faulting on break point

Agassi’s down 0-40 right after, with Edberg collaring the first 3 points. Lovely BH inside-out chip-charge return wins first point, a nice FH dtl approach the second and a spanked BH longline winner the third that’s set in motion by a very deep return
Agassi’s just as impressive in winning the game from there, with an error forcing FH inside-out and 4 winners (FH dtl top spin winner at net against drop shot, a first volley BHV winner serve-volleying, BH longline pass against a return-approach and a wonderfully carved BH inside-out/dtl pass)

No more break threats for rest of set, but plenty of fine action. Edberg scores a bad bounce related ace that climgs over Agassi’s head

Tiebreak. Edberg charges net relentlessly. He’s there 7/8 point and misses a return-approach on 1 exception. And loses all but 1 of them. Ironically, only one he wins is a very rare passing UE, with Agassi missing a BH from near the service line. Otherwise, 4 passing winners from Agassi (2 FH lobs, BH cc return and at net FH cc) and 2 forced BHV errors

Action is similar in fourth set, with Edberg missing more of his aggressive returns. 3 breaks in a row leave Agassi up 3-1

Grabs first break with wide return to Edberg at feet level, a perfect BH inside-out return-pass winner and making most of an ordinary first volley to dispatch a FH cc pass winner. Edberg again double faults on break point
Aggressive game by Edberg to break back to 30 - winning BH dtl approach, a return to the baseline and on break point, a chip-charge return
Agassi breaks again to stay ahead. From deuce, Edberg double faults and misses a putaway easy BHV

No more competitive thrills after that, and in due time, Agassi serves out to love, finishing with a serve-volley that draws a return error

Summing up, kitchen sink throwing fun match with Edberg’s proactivity behind majority of it. He serve-volleys of course and the contest between his high end punched volleying and Agassi’s power return-passing is a very good one. That’s not surprising though

What Edberg does on the return is. He’s extremely aggressive - chip-charges and raw charges and hit-&-run and dtl - with the return shot, against both serves and looks to come in behind it all. Misses good lot, but its worth it for the damage such returns do. On top of that, he looks for point ending shots from the back, especially BH dtl’s. Occasionally, is able to thoroughly outplay Agassi with all this and is otherwise, seems as liable to breakthrough with it in a choice game as Agassi is to nail a clustered series of return-passes

Agassi beefs up his serving and hitting off the ground in response and its good enough to get better of Edberg. Meanwhile, slightly toning down his passing to wide and powerful enough to force errors rather than go for clean winners

Good adjustments and enough to give him overall advantage, that he nurses to victory

 

[adil1972]

When did DC lost its prestige

1) Start of OE, when tournamets prize money went skyhigh compare to nothing for davis cup

2) Start of 80 decade when except for John McEnroe nobody cared

3) Start of 90 decade or later


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