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Roger Federer #17 def. Kei Nishikori #5

6-7(4) 6-4 6-1 4-6 6-3

Match Information

Date	Jan 24, 2017*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R16
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-7(4) 6-4 6-1 4-6 6-3
Loser	Kei Nishikori
Duration	3h 23m

Stat	Roger Federer	Kei Nishikori
Aces	24	5
Double faults	6	5
First serve %	68	65
First serve points won %	80	68
Second serve points won %	48	42
Break points saved %	70	61
Break points converted %	39	30
Service points won %	70	59
Return points won %	41	30
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Kei Nishikori
Country	SUI	JPN
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Dec 29, 1989
Age	35	27
Height	185	178
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	17	5
Ranking points (entering)	1,980	5,010
Elo (entering)	2,300	2,170
Career W-L	1,206–267	424–226
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$26,091,290

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 4 – 2 Kei Nishikori

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2017	R32	Tomas Berdych	6-2 6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2017	R64	Noah Rubin	7-5 6-3 7-6(3)	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2017	R128	Jurgen Melzer	7-5 3-6 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 26, 2017	QF	Mischa Zverev	6-1 7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Kei Nishikori's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2017	R32	Lukas Lacko	6-4 6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2017	R64	Jeremy Chardy	6-3 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2017	R128	Andrey Kuznetsov	5-7 6-1 6-4 6-7(6) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data