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Albert Costa#26 def. Karol Kucera#10

3-0 (ret.)

Match Information

Date	May 10, 1998*
Tournament	Hamburg Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Albert Costa
Score	3-0 (ret.)
Loser	Karol Kucera
Duration	16m

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Albert Costa	Karol Kucera
Country	ESP	SVK
Birth date	Jun 25, 1975	Mar 4, 1974
Age	22	24
Height	180	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	26	10
Ranking points (entering)	1,308	2,141
Elo (entering)	1,907	1,917
Career W-L	368–263	259–230
Career earnings	$7,685,228	$5,061,125

Pre-match H2H

Albert Costa 0 – 0 Karol Kucera

Path

Albert Costa's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 10, 1998	QF	Fabrice Santoro	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 9, 1998	R16	Wayne Ferreira	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 7, 1998	R32	Oliver Gross	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 6, 1998	R64	Andrei Medvedev	6-3 1-6 7-6(3)	W	H2H	Match data

Albert Costa's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 11, 1998	F	Alex Corretja	6-2 6-0 1-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data

Karol Kucera's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 10, 1998	QF	Thomas Muster	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 9, 1998	R16	Francisco Clavet	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 7, 1998	R32	Richard Fromberg	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data