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Roger Federer #1 def. Nicolas Kiefer #31

6-4 6-1

Match Information

Date	Mar 13, 2005*
Tournament	Indian Wells Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-4 6-1
Loser	Nicolas Kiefer
Duration	1h 7m

Stat	Roger Federer	Nicolas Kiefer
Aces	4	1
Double faults	1	2
First serve %	62	62
First serve points won %	77	50
Second serve points won %	50	35
Break points saved %	0	29
Break points converted %	71	100
Service points won %	67	44
Return points won %	56	33
Total points won %	61	39

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Nicolas Kiefer
Country	SUI	GER
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Jul 5, 1977
Age	23	27
Height	185	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	1	31
Ranking points (entering)	6,050	1,070
Elo (entering)	2,311	1,887
Career W-L	1,206–267	343–252
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$7,480,465

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 3 – 3 Nicolas Kiefer

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2005	R16	Ivan Ljubicic	7-6(3) 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 10, 2005	R32	Gilles Muller	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 9, 2005	R64	Mardy Fish	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 2005	SF	Guillermo Canas	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Nicolas Kiefer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2005	R16	David Nalbandian	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 10, 2005	R32	Gaston Gaudio	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 9, 2005	R64	Sargis Sargsian	6-0 6-0	W	H2H	Match data