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Roger Federer #1 def. Ivan Ljubicic #6

7-6(5) 7-6(4) 7-6(6)

Match Information

Date	Mar 27, 2006*
Tournament	Miami Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	7-6(5) 7-6(4) 7-6(6)
Loser	Ivan Ljubicic
Duration	2h 57m

Stat	Roger Federer	Ivan Ljubicic
Aces	8	21
Double faults	3	3
First serve %	63	56
First serve points won %	74	78
Second serve points won %	63	58
Break points saved %	71	71
Break points converted %	29	29
Service points won %	70	69
Return points won %	31	30
Total points won %	51	49

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Ivan Ljubicic
Country	SUI	CRO
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Mar 19, 1979
Age	24	27
Height	185	193
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	6
Ranking points (entering)	6,935	2,295
Elo (entering)	2,371	2,044
Career W-L	1,206–267	400–282
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$10,181,121

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 9 – 3 Ivan Ljubicic

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 26, 2006	SF	David Ferrer	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 26, 2006	QF	James Blake	7-6(2) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 25, 2006	R16	Dmitry Tursunov	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 23, 2006	R32	Tommy Haas	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 22, 2006	R64	Arnaud Clement	6-2 6-7(4) 6-0	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
Mar 26, 2006	SF	David Nalbandian	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 26, 2006	QF	Agustin Calleri	7-6(4) 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 25, 2006	R16	Christophe Rochus	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 23, 2006	R32	Filippo Volandri	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 22, 2006	R64	Robin Vik	6-3 6-7(2) 6-3	W	H2H	Match data