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Roger Federer #1 def. Ivo Karlovic #25

7-6(6) 7-6(5)

Match Information

Date	Oct 27, 2007*
Tournament	Basel
Category	ATP 500
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	7-6(6) 7-6(5)
Loser	Ivo Karlovic
Duration	1h 38m

Stat	Roger Federer	Ivo Karlovic
Aces	10	16
Double faults	1	1
First serve %	70	67
First serve points won %	82	91
Second serve points won %	71	46
Break points saved %	100	100
Break points converted %	0	0
Service points won %	79	76
Return points won %	24	21
Total points won %	52	48

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Ivo Karlovic
Country	SUI	CRO
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Feb 28, 1979
Age	26	28
Height	185	211
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	25
Ranking points (entering)	7,205	1,295
Elo (entering)	2,357	1,931
Career W-L	1,206–267	357–333
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$10,160,232

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 3 – 0 Ivo Karlovic

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 27, 2007	QF	Nicolas Kiefer	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 26, 2007	R16	Juan Martin del Potro	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 2007	R32	Michael Berrer	6-1 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 28, 2007	F	Jarkko Nieminen	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Ivo Karlovic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 27, 2007	QF	Tomas Berdych	6-7(5) 7-6(2) 7-6(13)	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 26, 2007	R16	James Blake	4-6 7-6(4) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 2007	R32	Marco Chiudinelli	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data