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Patrick Rafter #4 def. Yevgeny Kafelnikov #2

6-4 6-2

Match Information

Date	Aug 15, 1999*
Tournament	Cincinnati Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Patrick Rafter
Score	6-4 6-2
Loser	Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Duration	55m

Stat	Patrick Rafter	Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Aces	11	5
Double faults	1	2
First serve %	77	62
First serve points won %	85	73
Second serve points won %	80	30
Break points saved %	—	40
Break points converted %	60	—
Service points won %	84	57
Return points won %	43	16
Total points won %	61	39

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Patrick Rafter	Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Country	AUS	RUS
Birth date	Dec 28, 1972	Feb 18, 1974
Age	26	25
Height	185	190
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	4	2
Ranking points (entering)	3,271	3,527
Elo (entering)	1,983	1,924
Career W-L	332–177	568–281
Career earnings	$11,133,128	$23,883,797

Pre-match H2H

Patrick Rafter 1 – 2 Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Path

Patrick Rafter's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1999	QF	Michael Chang	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 14, 1999	R16	Nicolas Lapentti	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 12, 1999	R32	Daniel Vacek	7-6(3) 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Patrick Rafter's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1999	F	Pete Sampras	6-7(7) 3-6	L	H2H	Match data

Yevgeny Kafelnikov's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1999	QF	Tim Henman	7-5 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 14, 1999	R16	Chris Woodruff	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 12, 1999	R32	Jonas Bjorkman	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data