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Jiri Novak #28 def. Taylor Dent #55

5-7 6-1 6-3

Match Information

Date	Oct 10, 2004*
Tournament	Tokyo
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Jiri Novak
Score	5-7 6-1 6-3
Loser	Taylor Dent
Duration	1h 45m

Stat	Jiri Novak	Taylor Dent
Aces	1	4
Double faults	0	7
First serve %	67	59
First serve points won %	61	62
Second serve points won %	72	39
Break points saved %	25	54
Break points converted %	46	75
Service points won %	64	52
Return points won %	48	36
Total points won %	55	45

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jiri Novak	Taylor Dent
Country	CZE	USA
Birth date	Mar 22, 1975	Apr 24, 1981
Age	29	23
Height	190	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	28	55
Ranking points (entering)	1,085	685
Elo (entering)	1,858	1,752
Career W-L	318–250	148–138
Career earnings	$7,618,613	$2,563,378

Pre-match H2H

Jiri Novak 1 – 2 Taylor Dent

Path

Jiri Novak's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 9, 2004	SF	Lleyton Hewitt	6-4 4-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 9, 2004	QF	Paradorn Srichaphan	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 8, 2004	R16	Ricardo Mello	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 7, 2004	R32	Guillermo Garcia-Lopez	7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Jiri Novak's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Taylor Dent's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 9, 2004	SF	Bohdan Ulihrach	4-6 6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 9, 2004	QF	Gilles Muller	6-4 4-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 8, 2004	R16	Hyung-Taik Lee	7-6(4) 5-7 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 7, 2004	R32	Tomas Zib	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data