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Sergiy Stakhovsky #93 def. Marat Safin #77

6-4 4-6 6-4

Match Information

Date	Oct 30, 2009*
Tournament	St. Petersburg
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Sergiy Stakhovsky
Score	6-4 4-6 6-4
Loser	Marat Safin
Duration	1h 48m

Stat	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Marat Safin
Aces	7	10
Double faults	3	3
First serve %	69	56
First serve points won %	72	80
Second serve points won %	47	56
Break points saved %	67	25
Break points converted %	75	33
Service points won %	64	69
Return points won %	31	36
Total points won %	50	50

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Marat Safin
Country	UKR	RUS
Birth date	—	Jan 27, 1980
Age	—	29
Height	193	193
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	93	77
Ranking points (entering)	559	615
Elo (entering)	1,729	1,788
Career W-L	145–195	395–247
Career earnings	$5,606,768	$14,373,291

Pre-match H2H

Sergiy Stakhovsky 0 – 1 Marat Safin

Path

Sergiy Stakhovsky's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 30, 2009	QF	Bjorn Phau	6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 29, 2009	R16	Andrey Kuznetsov	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 28, 2009	R32	Evgeny Korolev	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 26, 2009	Q3	Sergei Bubka	7-6(9) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 2009	Q2	Filip Polasek	6-4 2-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 2009	Q1	Mikhail Balmashev	6-0 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Sergiy Stakhovsky's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 31, 2009	F	Horacio Zeballos	2-6 7-6(8) 7-6(7)	W	H2H	Match data

Marat Safin's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 30, 2009	QF	Denis Istomin	6-0 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 29, 2009	R16	Igor Andreev	6-3 0-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 28, 2009	R32	Richard Gasquet	7-6(5) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data