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Roger Federer #1 def. Novak Djokovic #2

6-0 7-6(7)

Match Information

Date	Aug 19, 2012*
Tournament	Cincinnati Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-0 7-6(7)
Loser	Novak Djokovic
Duration	1h 20m

Stat	Roger Federer	Novak Djokovic
Aces	8	2
Double faults	1	5
First serve %	59	57
First serve points won %	82	66
Second serve points won %	65	50
Break points saved %	—	25
Break points converted %	75	—
Service points won %	75	59
Return points won %	41	25
Total points won %	57	43

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Novak Djokovic
Country	SUI	SRB
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	May 22, 1987
Age	31	25
Height	185	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	1	2
Ranking points (entering)	11,345	11,270
Elo (entering)	2,406	2,397
Career W-L	1,206–267	1,122–223
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$193,469,626

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 14 – 12 Novak Djokovic

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 2012	SF	Stan Wawrinka	7-6(4) 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 2012	QF	Mardy Fish	6-3 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 17, 2012	R16	Bernard Tomic	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 2012	R32	Alex Bogomolov Jr	6-3 6-2	W	—	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Novak Djokovic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 2012	SF	Juan Martin del Potro	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 2012	QF	Marin Cilic	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 17, 2012	R16	Nikolay Davydenko	6-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 2012	R32	Andreas Seppi	7-6(4) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data