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Albert Costa #20 def. Filip Dewulf #43

6-1 6-4

Match Information

Date	May 14, 1998*
Tournament	Rome Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	R32
Winner	Albert Costa
Score	6-1 6-4
Loser	Filip Dewulf
Duration	1h 1m

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Albert Costa	Filip Dewulf
Country	ESP	BEL
Birth date	Jun 25, 1975	Mar 15, 1972
Age	22	26
Height	180	190
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	20	43
Ranking points (entering)	1,729	924
Elo (entering)	1,944	1,643
Career W-L	368–263	85–109
Career earnings	$7,685,228	$1,503,987

Pre-match H2H

Albert Costa 1 – 1 Filip Dewulf

Path

Albert Costa's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 13, 1998	R64	Hernan Gumy	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Albert Costa's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 16, 1998	R16	Karim Alami	6-2 7-6(7)	W	H2H	Match data

Filip Dewulf's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 13, 1998	R64	Jonas Bjorkman	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data