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Roger Federer #1 def. Ivan Ljubicic #19

5-7 7-5 7-6(5)

Match Information

Date	Feb 20, 2005*
Tournament	Rotterdam
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	5-7 7-5 7-6(5)
Loser	Ivan Ljubicic
Duration	2h 44m

Stat	Roger Federer	Ivan Ljubicic
Aces	12	16
Double faults	2	3
First serve %	69	66
First serve points won %	87	75
Second serve points won %	57	50
Break points saved %	67	83
Break points converted %	17	33
Service points won %	77	66
Return points won %	34	23
Total points won %	52	48

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Ivan Ljubicic
Country	SUI	CRO
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Mar 19, 1979
Age	23	25
Height	185	193
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	19
Ranking points (entering)	5,975	1,340
Elo (entering)	2,289	1,903
Career W-L	1,206–267	400–282
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$10,181,121

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 4 – 3 Ivan Ljubicic

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 19, 2005	SF	Mario Ancic	7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 19, 2005	QF	Nikolay Davydenko	7-5 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 18, 2005	R16	Stan Wawrinka	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 17, 2005	R32	Bohdan Ulihrach	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Ivan Ljubicic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 19, 2005	SF	Thomas Johansson	7-6(4) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 19, 2005	QF	Paradorn Srichaphan	3-6 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 18, 2005	R16	Sjeng Schalken	6-4 5-7 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 17, 2005	R32	Dominik Hrbaty	6-4 1-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data