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Lleyton Hewitt #8 def. Nicolas Escude #36

6-1 6-3

Match Information

Date	Mar 18, 2001*
Tournament	Indian Wells Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Lleyton Hewitt
Score	6-1 6-3
Loser	Nicolas Escude
Duration	1h 15m

Stat	Lleyton Hewitt	Nicolas Escude
Aces	4	3
Double faults	4	2
First serve %	53	53
First serve points won %	75	52
Second serve points won %	43	31
Break points saved %	0	33
Break points converted %	67	100
Service points won %	60	42
Return points won %	58	40
Total points won %	59	41

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Lleyton Hewitt	Nicolas Escude
Country	AUS	FRA
Birth date	Feb 24, 1981	Apr 3, 1976
Age	20	24
Height	178	185
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	8	36
Ranking points (entering)	2,385	945
Elo (entering)	1,984	1,848
Career W-L	564–241	157–124
Career earnings	$20,890,470	$3,216,150

Pre-match H2H

Lleyton Hewitt 1 – 1 Nicolas Escude

Path

Lleyton Hewitt's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 17, 2001	R16	Bohdan Ulihrach	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 15, 2001	R32	Paradorn Srichaphan	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 2001	R64	Albert Costa	6-2 5-7 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Lleyton Hewitt's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 18, 2001	SF	Andre Agassi	4-6 6-3 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Nicolas Escude's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 17, 2001	R16	Arnaud Clement	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 15, 2001	R32	Thomas Johansson	6-1 6-7(5) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 2001	R64	Andreas Vinciguerra	7-6(7) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data