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Roger Federer #3 def. Juan Martin del Potro #11

6-4 6-3 6-2

Match Information

Date	Jan 26, 2012*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-4 6-3 6-2
Loser	Juan Martin del Potro
Duration	1h 59m

Stat	Roger Federer	Juan Martin del Potro
Aces	4	5
Double faults	1	3
First serve %	57	67
First serve points won %	89	57
Second serve points won %	58	55
Break points saved %	83	38
Break points converted %	62	17
Service points won %	75	56
Return points won %	44	25
Total points won %	59	41

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Juan Martin del Potro
Country	SUI	ARG
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Sep 23, 1988
Age	30	23
Height	185	198
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	3	11
Ranking points (entering)	8,010	2,315
Elo (entering)	2,329	2,062
Career W-L	1,206–267	416–172
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$25,896,046

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 7 – 2 Juan Martin del Potro

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2012	R16	Bernard Tomic	6-4 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2012	R32	Ivo Karlovic	7-6(6) 7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2012	R64	Andreas Beck	(w/o)	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2012	R128	Alexander Kudryavtsev	7-5 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 28, 2012	SF	Rafael Nadal	7-6(5) 2-6 6-7(5) 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Juan Martin del Potro's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2012	R16	Philipp Kohlschreiber	6-4 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2012	R32	Yen-Hsun Lu	6-2 6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2012	R64	Blaz Kavcic	6-4 7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2012	R128	Adrian Mannarino	2-6 6-1 7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data