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Roger Federer #1 def. Ivan Ljubicic #6

6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Mar 12, 2006*
Tournament	Indian Wells Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-2 6-3
Loser	Ivan Ljubicic
Duration	1h 7m

Stat	Roger Federer	Ivan Ljubicic
Aces	5	4
Double faults	1	1
First serve %	70	75
First serve points won %	78	61
Second serve points won %	56	38
Break points saved %	100	57
Break points converted %	43	0
Service points won %	72	55
Return points won %	45	28
Total points won %	59	41

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Ivan Ljubicic
Country	SUI	CRO
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Mar 19, 1979
Age	24	26
Height	185	193
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	6
Ranking points (entering)	6,935	2,245
Elo (entering)	2,350	2,016
Career W-L	1,206–267	400–282
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$10,181,121

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 8 – 3 Ivan Ljubicic

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 11, 2006	R16	Richard Gasquet	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 9, 2006	R32	Olivier Rochus	3-6 6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 8, 2006	R64	Nicolas Massu	6-3 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2006	SF	Paradorn Srichaphan	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Ljubicic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 11, 2006	R16	Mario Ancic	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 9, 2006	R32	Gael Monfils	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 8, 2006	R64	Janko Tipsarevic	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data