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Ivan Ljubicic #12 def. Andrei Pavel #98

6-3 6-4 7-6(6)

Match Information

Date	Aug 30, 2007*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R64
Winner	Ivan Ljubicic
Score	6-3 6-4 7-6(6)
Loser	Andrei Pavel
Duration	2h 28m

Stat	Ivan Ljubicic	Andrei Pavel
Aces	18	8
Double faults	3	7
First serve %	51	64
First serve points won %	92	71
Second serve points won %	55	46
Break points saved %	—	80
Break points converted %	20	—
Service points won %	74	62
Return points won %	38	26
Total points won %	55	45

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Ljubicic	Andrei Pavel
Country	CRO	ROU
Birth date	Mar 19, 1979	Jan 27, 1974
Age	28	33
Height	193	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	12	98
Ranking points (entering)	1,780	422
Elo (entering)	1,851	1,714
Career W-L	400–282	249–248
Career earnings	$10,181,121	$5,225,028

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Ljubicic 2 – 2 Andrei Pavel

Path

Ivan Ljubicic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 29, 2007	R128	Kristof Vliegen	6-1 7-6(1) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Ljubicic's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2007	R32	Juan Ignacio Chela	4-6 7-6(5) 6-2 3-6 3-6	L	H2H	Match data

Andrei Pavel's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 29, 2007	R128	Dominik Meffert	3-6 6-3 6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 2007	Q3	Lukas Lacko	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 2007	Q2	Kyu Tae Im	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2007	Q1	Scott Oudsema	7-6(3) 7-6(5)	W	H2H	Match data