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Roger Federer #1 def. Stan Wawrinka #26

7-6(4) 6-3

Match Information

Date	Aug 18, 2012*
Tournament	Cincinnati Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	7-6(4) 6-3
Loser	Stan Wawrinka
Duration	1h 35m

Stat	Roger Federer	Stan Wawrinka
Aces	5	6
Double faults	5	2
First serve %	54	55
First serve points won %	81	70
Second serve points won %	68	51
Break points saved %	100	80
Break points converted %	20	0
Service points won %	75	61
Return points won %	39	25
Total points won %	55	45

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Stan Wawrinka
Country	SUI	SUI
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Mar 28, 1985
Age	31	27
Height	185	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	26
Ranking points (entering)	11,345	1,380
Elo (entering)	2,403	2,011
Career W-L	1,206–267	564–371
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$38,463,397

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 10 – 1 Stan Wawrinka

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 2012	QF	Mardy Fish	6-3 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 17, 2012	R16	Bernard Tomic	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 2012	R32	Alex Bogomolov Jr	6-3 6-2	W	—	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 2012	F	Novak Djokovic	6-0 7-6(7)	W	H2H	Match data

Stan Wawrinka's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 2012	QF	Milos Raonic	2-6 7-6(5) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 17, 2012	R16	Kei Nishikori	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 2012	R32	David Ferrer	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 14, 2012	R64	Paul-Henri Mathieu	6-2 3-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data