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Roger Federer #2 def. Marat Safin #27

6-3 6-2 7-6(5)

Match Information

Date	Jan 25, 2009*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R32
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-3 6-2 7-6(5)
Loser	Marat Safin
Duration	1h 50m

Stat	Roger Federer	Marat Safin
Aces	9	14
Double faults	1	2
First serve %	61	50
First serve points won %	85	68
Second serve points won %	63	55
Break points saved %	—	25
Break points converted %	75	—
Service points won %	76	61
Return points won %	39	24
Total points won %	58	42

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Marat Safin
Country	SUI	RUS
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Jan 27, 1980
Age	27	28
Height	185	193
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	2	27
Ranking points (entering)	10,700	2,050
Elo (entering)	2,196	1,805
Career W-L	1,206–267	395–247
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$14,373,291

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 8 – 2 Marat Safin

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2009	R64	Evgeny Korolev	6-2 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 21, 2009	R128	Andreas Seppi	6-1 7-6(4) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 27, 2009	R16	Tomas Berdych	4-6 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Marat Safin's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2009	R64	Guillermo Garcia-Lopez	7-5 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 21, 2009	R128	Ivan Navarro	6-3 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data