Marcelo Rios #6 def. Mikael Tillstrom #142

6-2 7-6(5)

Marcelo Rios defeated Mikael Tillstrom 6-2 7-6(5) in the 1999 Brisbane International final on hard courts.

Match Information

Date: Oct 17, 1999*
Tournament: Brisbane International
Edition: 1999
Category: ATP Championship Series → modern equivalent ATP 500
Surface: Hard
Round: F
Duration: 1h 32m

Match Statistics

Stat	Marcelo Rios	Mikael Tillstrom
Aces	7	1
Double faults	2	1
First serve %	51	62
First serve points won %	83	58
Second serve points won %	59	51
Break points saved %	88	77
Break points converted %	23	12
Service points won %	71	55
Return points won %	45	29
Total points won %	56	44

Player Comparison

Field	Marcelo Rios	Mikael Tillstrom
Country	CHI	SWE
Birth date	Dec 26, 1975	Mar 5, 1972
Age	23	27
Height	175 cm	185 cm
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	6	142
Ranking points (entering)	2,357	310
Elo (entering)	1,936	1,651
Current career W-L	366–180	109–109
Current career earnings	$9,713,771	$2,030,525

Pre-match H2H

Marcelo Rios #6 1 – 0 Mikael Tillstrom #142

Path

Marcelo Rios's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Lleyton Hewitt #31	7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 16, 1999	SF
Jan-Michael Gambill #58	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 16, 1999	QF
Daniel Nestor #70	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 15, 1999	R16
Fredrik Jonsson #125	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 14, 1999	R32

Marcelo Rios's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Mikael Tillstrom's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Paradorn Srichaphan #156	6-4 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 16, 1999	SF
Ivan Ljubicic #99	7-6(4) 4-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 16, 1999	QF
Jonas Bjorkman #53	3-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 15, 1999	R16
Byron Black #82	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Oct 14, 1999	R32