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Andy Murray #9 def. Ivo Karlovic #22

6-4 6-4

Match Information

Date	Aug 2, 2008*
Tournament	Cincinnati Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Andy Murray
Score	6-4 6-4
Loser	Ivo Karlovic
Duration	1h 22m

Stat	Andy Murray	Ivo Karlovic
Aces	1	6
Double faults	1	0
First serve %	77	69
First serve points won %	80	61
Second serve points won %	42	41
Break points saved %	60	69
Break points converted %	31	40
Service points won %	72	55
Return points won %	45	28
Total points won %	56	44

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Andy Murray	Ivo Karlovic
Country	GBR	CRO
Birth date	May 15, 1987	Feb 28, 1979
Age	21	29
Height	191	211
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	9	22
Ranking points (entering)	1,835	1,110
Elo (entering)	2,055	1,869
Career W-L	703–264	357–333
Career earnings	$64,687,542	$10,160,232

Pre-match H2H

Andy Murray 3 – 0 Ivo Karlovic

Path

Andy Murray's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 2, 2008	QF	Carlos Moya	2-6 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 1, 2008	R16	Dmitry Tursunov	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 31, 2008	R32	Sam Querrey	7-6(3) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Andy Murray's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 2008	F	Novak Djokovic	7-6(4) 7-6(5)	W	H2H	Match data

Ivo Karlovic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 2, 2008	QF	Philipp Kohlschreiber	7-6(6) 7-6(3)	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 1, 2008	R16	Roger Federer	7-6(6) 4-6 7-6(5)	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 31, 2008	R32	Jose Acasuso	6-3 7-6(3)	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 30, 2008	R64	Thomaz Bellucci	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data