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James Blake #11 def. Simone Bolelli #39

6-7(10) 6-3 6-4

Match Information

Date	Oct 29, 2008*
Tournament	Paris Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	R32
Winner	James Blake
Score	6-7(10) 6-3 6-4
Loser	Simone Bolelli
Duration	1h 59m

Stat	James Blake	Simone Bolelli
Aces	17	13
Double faults	3	1
First serve %	63	60
First serve points won %	81	70
Second serve points won %	55	58
Break points saved %	50	25
Break points converted %	75	50
Service points won %	72	66
Return points won %	34	28
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	James Blake	Simone Bolelli
Country	USA	ITA
Birth date	Dec 28, 1979	Oct 8, 1985
Age	28	23
Height	185	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	11	39
Ranking points (entering)	1,625	873
Elo (entering)	1,840	1,799
Career W-L	345–235	114–156
Career earnings	$7,981,882	$8,814,533

Pre-match H2H

James Blake 0 – 0 Simone Bolelli

Path

James Blake's path

No prior matches in this tournament.

James Blake's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 31, 2008	R16	Philipp Kohlschreiber	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Simone Bolelli's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 28, 2008	R64	Jarkko Nieminen	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 26, 2008	Q2	Florent Serra	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 26, 2008	Q1	Chris Guccione	6-4 6-7(6) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data