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Roger Federer #5 def. Filippo Volandri #100

6-3 5-7 6-2

Match Information

Date	May 11, 2003*
Tournament	Rome Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	QF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-3 5-7 6-2
Loser	Filippo Volandri
Duration	2h 2m

Stat	Roger Federer	Filippo Volandri
Aces	6	0
Double faults	0	5
First serve %	57	71
First serve points won %	79	65
Second serve points won %	51	31
Break points saved %	25	67
Break points converted %	33	75
Service points won %	67	55
Return points won %	45	33
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Filippo Volandri
Country	SUI	ITA
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Sep 5, 1981
Age	21	21
Height	185	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	5	100
Ranking points (entering)	2,545	408
Elo (entering)	2,008	1,629
Career W-L	1,206–267	167–215
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$3,949,631

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 0 – 0 Filippo Volandri

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 10, 2003	R16	Tommy Robredo	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 8, 2003	R32	Mariano Zabaleta	7-6(4) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 7, 2003	R64	Paul-Henri Mathieu	6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 11, 2003	SF	Juan Carlos Ferrero	6-4 4-2 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data

Filippo Volandri's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 10, 2003	R16	Radek Stepanek	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 8, 2003	R32	Raemon Sluiter	6-1 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
May 7, 2003	R64	Nicolas Massu	1-6 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data