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Roger Federer #2 def. Juan Martin del Potro #23

3-6 6-3 6-3

Match Information

Date	Oct 14, 2017*
Tournament	Shanghai Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	3-6 6-3 6-3
Loser	Juan Martin del Potro
Duration	1h 57m

Stat	Roger Federer	Juan Martin del Potro
Aces	7	12
Double faults	0	1
First serve %	72	67
First serve points won %	87	65
Second serve points won %	56	51
Break points saved %	0	70
Break points converted %	30	100
Service points won %	78	60
Return points won %	40	22
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Juan Martin del Potro
Country	SUI	ARG
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Sep 23, 1988
Age	36	29
Height	185	198
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	2	23
Ranking points (entering)	7,505	1,865
Elo (entering)	2,367	2,134
Career W-L	1,206–267	416–172
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$25,896,046

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 15 – 6 Juan Martin del Potro

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 14, 2017	QF	Richard Gasquet	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 13, 2017	R16	Alexandr Dolgopolov	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 11, 2017	R32	Diego Schwartzman	7-6(4) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 15, 2017	F	Rafael Nadal	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Juan Martin del Potro's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 14, 2017	QF	Viktor Troicki	4-6 6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 13, 2017	R16	Alexander Zverev	3-6 7-6(5) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 11, 2017	R32	Andrey Rublev	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 10, 2017	R64	Nikoloz Basilashvili	6-2 3-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data