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Roger Federer #6 def. Karol Kucera #62

7-6(5) 6-3

Match Information

Date	Feb 15, 2003*
Tournament	Marseille
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	7-6(5) 6-3
Loser	Karol Kucera
Duration	1h 26m

Stat	Roger Federer	Karol Kucera
Aces	3	4
Double faults	1	1
First serve %	72	65
First serve points won %	78	71
Second serve points won %	75	42
Break points saved %	—	67
Break points converted %	33	—
Service points won %	77	61
Return points won %	39	23
Total points won %	55	45

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Karol Kucera
Country	SUI	SVK
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Mar 4, 1974
Age	21	28
Height	185	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	6	62
Ranking points (entering)	2,415	613
Elo (entering)	1,921	1,832
Career W-L	1,206–267	259–230
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$5,061,125

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 1 – 1 Karol Kucera

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 15, 2003	QF	Raemon Sluiter	6-4 4-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 14, 2003	R16	Jarkko Nieminen	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 13, 2003	R32	Ivan Ljubicic	7-6(3) (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 16, 2003	F	Jonas Bjorkman	6-2 7-6(6)	W	H2H	Match data

Karol Kucera's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 15, 2003	QF	Olivier Rochus	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 14, 2003	R16	Sebastien Grosjean	7-6(4) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 13, 2003	R32	Michel Kratochvil	3-6 6-4 4-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data