Marat Safin def. Mikhail Youzhny, 2004 China Open Final

Match Information

Date: Sep 19, 2004*
Tournament: China Open
Edition: 2004
Category: International Series → modern equivalent ATP 250
Surface: Hard
Round: F
Duration: 1h 37m

Match Statistics

Stat	Marat Safin	Mikhail Youzhny
Aces	8	3
Double faults	1	3
First serve %	66.0%	62.0%
First serve points won %	79.0%	68.0%
Second serve points won %	52.0%	59.0%
Break points saved %	67.0%	33.0%
Break points converted %	67.0%	33.0%
Service points won %	70.0%	64.0%
Return points won %	36.0%	30.0%
Total points won %	53.0%	47.0%
Match Serve+	+7.0	+1.4
Match Return+	-1.4	-7.0

* Match Serve+ and Match Return+ compare this match with the ATP 2004 average from available match stats. Zero is average; +5 means five percentage points above average. No opponent adjustment.

Player Comparison

Field	Marat Safin	Mikhail Youzhny
Country	RUS	RUS
Birth date	Jan 27, 1980	Jun 25, 1982
Age	24	22
Height	193 cm	183 cm
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	One-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	13	35
Ranking points (entering)	1,590	910
Elo (entering)	1,810	1,839
Current career W-L	396–249	482–408
Current career earnings	$14,373,291	$14,264,450

Pre-match H2H

Marat Safin #13 1 – 0 Mikhail Youzhny #35

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Path

Marat Safin's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Jarkko Nieminen #71	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Sep 18, 2004	SF
Kevin Kim #143	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Sep 18, 2004	QF
Hao Lu #1095	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Sep 17, 2004	R16
Alex Bogomolov Jr	6-4 7-5	W	—	Match data	Sep 16, 2004	R32

Marat Safin's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Mikhail Youzhny's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Paradorn Srichaphan #20	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Sep 18, 2004	SF
Dominik Hrbaty #18	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Sep 18, 2004	QF
Rainer Schuettler #12	7-6(4) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data	Sep 17, 2004	R16
Ivo Heuberger #129	7-5 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data	Sep 16, 2004	R32