SF St. Petersburg 2009

Sergiy Stakhovsky #93 def. Marat Safin #77

6-4 4-6 6-4

Sergiy Stakhovsky defeated Marat Safin 6-4 4-6 6-4 in the 2009 St. Petersburg semifinal on hard courts.

Match Information

Date: Oct 30, 2009*
Tournament: St. Petersburg
Edition: 2009
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Hard
Round: SF
Duration: 1h 48m

Match Statistics

Stat	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Marat Safin
Aces	7	10
Double faults	3	3
First serve %	69.0%	56.0%
First serve points won %	72.0%	80.0%
Second serve points won %	47.0%	56.0%
Break points saved %	67.0%	25.0%
Break points converted %	75.0%	33.0%
Service points won %	64.0%	69.0%
Return points won %	31.0%	36.0%
Total points won %	50.0%	50.0%

Player Comparison

Field	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Marat Safin
Country	UKR	RUS
Birth date	Jan 6, 1986	Jan 27, 1980
Age	23	29
Height	193 cm	193 cm
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	93	77
Ranking points (entering)	559	615
Elo (entering)	1,730	1,787
Current career W-L	145–196	396–249
Current career earnings	$5,606,768	$14,373,291

Pre-match H2H

Sergiy Stakhovsky #93 0 – 1 Marat Safin #77

Path

Sergiy Stakhovsky's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Bjorn Phau #110	6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 30, 2009	QF
Andrey Kuznetsov #414	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 29, 2009	R16
Evgeny Korolev #50	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 28, 2009	R32
Sergei Bubka #267	7-6(9) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 26, 2009	Q3
Filip Polasek	6-4 2-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 25, 2009	Q2
Mikhail Balmashev #1276	6-0 6-0	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 25, 2009	Q1

Sergiy Stakhovsky's next match

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Horacio Zeballos #54	2-6 7-6(8) 7-6(7)	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 31, 2009	F

Marat Safin's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Denis Istomin #101	6-0 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 30, 2009	QF
Igor Andreev #38	6-3 0-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 29, 2009	R16
Richard Gasquet #69	7-6(5) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 28, 2009	R32