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Roger Federer #1 def. James Blake #14

7-5 6-3 6-0

Match Information

Date	Mar 13, 2006*
Tournament	Indian Wells Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	7-5 6-3 6-0
Loser	James Blake
Duration	1h 43m

Stat	Roger Federer	James Blake
Aces	3	3
Double faults	1	3
First serve %	58	49
First serve points won %	80	45
Second serve points won %	55	49
Break points saved %	50	56
Break points converted %	44	50
Service points won %	70	47
Return points won %	53	30
Total points won %	61	39

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	James Blake
Country	SUI	USA
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Dec 28, 1979
Age	24	26
Height	185	185
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	14
Ranking points (entering)	6,935	1,565
Elo (entering)	2,356	1,997
Career W-L	1,206–267	345–235
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$7,981,882

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 2 – 0 James Blake

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2006	SF	Paradorn Srichaphan	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2006	QF	Ivan Ljubicic	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 11, 2006	R16	Richard Gasquet	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 9, 2006	R32	Olivier Rochus	3-6 6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 8, 2006	R64	Nicolas Massu	6-3 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

James Blake's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2006	SF	Rafael Nadal	7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2006	QF	Igor Andreev	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 11, 2006	R16	Tommy Haas	6-3 3-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 9, 2006	R32	Tommy Robredo	6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 8, 2006	R64	Sam Querrey	1-6 6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data