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Pete Sampras #1 def. Mark Philippoussis #22

6-3 6-3 6-4

Match Information

Date	Sep 4, 1996*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R16
Winner	Pete Sampras
Score	6-3 6-3 6-4
Loser	Mark Philippoussis

Stat	Pete Sampras	Mark Philippoussis
Aces	10	17
Double faults	3	6
First serve %	52	53
First serve points won %	86	84
Second serve points won %	60	45
Break points saved %	100	64
Break points converted %	36	0
Service points won %	74	66
Return points won %	34	26
Total points won %	53	47

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Pete Sampras	Mark Philippoussis
Country	USA	AUS
Birth date	Aug 12, 1971	Nov 7, 1976
Age	25	19
Height	185	196
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	22
Ranking points (entering)	4,318	1,319
Elo (entering)	2,148	1,865
Career W-L	737–208	287–190
Career earnings	$43,280,489	$6,987,402

Pre-match H2H

Pete Sampras 2 – 1 Mark Philippoussis

Path

Pete Sampras's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 1, 1996	R32	Alexander Volkov	6-3 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 30, 1996	R64	Jiri Novak	6-3 1-6 6-3 4-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 1996	R128	Jimy Szymanski	6-2 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Pete Sampras's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 1996	QF	Alex Corretja	7-6(5) 5-7 5-7 6-4 7-6(7)	W	H2H	Match data

Mark Philippoussis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 1, 1996	R32	Cedric Pioline	6-3 6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 30, 1996	R64	Andrei Olhovskiy	6-3 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 1996	R128	Mark Woodforde	6-7(6) 6-3 6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data