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Flavio Cipolla #142 def. Yen-Hsun Lu #73

6-1 4-6 7-6(2) 6-4

Match Information

Date	Aug 28, 2008*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R64
Winner	Flavio Cipolla
Score	6-1 4-6 7-6(2) 6-4
Loser	Yen-Hsun Lu
Duration	3h 8m

Stat	Flavio Cipolla	Yen-Hsun Lu
Aces	2	4
Double faults	4	3
First serve %	69	63
First serve points won %	67	65
Second serve points won %	64	46
Break points saved %	70	54
Break points converted %	46	30
Service points won %	66	58
Return points won %	42	34
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Flavio Cipolla	Yen-Hsun Lu
Country	ITA	TPE
Birth date	Oct 20, 1983	—
Age	24	—
Height	173	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	142	73
Ranking points (entering)	334	571
Elo (entering)	1,573	1,565
Career W-L	35–66	143–222
Career earnings	$1,632,927	$5,179,843

Pre-match H2H

Flavio Cipolla 0 – 0 Yen-Hsun Lu

Path

Flavio Cipolla's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2008	R128	Jan Hernych	6-7(2) 6-4 2-6 7-6(0) 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 26, 2008	Q2	Lukas Lacko	2-6 6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 25, 2008	Q1	Dawid Olejniczak	7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Flavio Cipolla's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2008	R32	Stan Wawrinka	7-5 7-6(4) 4-6 0-6 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Yen-Hsun Lu's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2008	R128	Nicolas Lapentti	6-4 1-6 4-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data