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Roger Federer #1 def. Andreas Seppi #43

6-3 6-1

Match Information

Date	May 17, 2008*
Tournament	Hamburg Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-3 6-1
Loser	Andreas Seppi
Duration	1h 19m

Stat	Roger Federer	Andreas Seppi
Aces	1	2
Double faults	0	1
First serve %	52	60
First serve points won %	79	59
Second serve points won %	64	41
Break points saved %	100	71
Break points converted %	29	0
Service points won %	72	52
Return points won %	48	28
Total points won %	57	43

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Andreas Seppi
Country	SUI	ITA
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Feb 21, 1984
Age	26	24
Height	185	191
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	1	43
Ranking points (entering)	6,825	763
Elo (entering)	2,235	1,815
Career W-L	1,206–267	363–397
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$11,816,212

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 1 – 0 Andreas Seppi

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 17, 2008	QF	Fernando Verdasco	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 16, 2008	R16	Robin Soderling	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 2008	R32	Jarkko Nieminen	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 18, 2008	F	Rafael Nadal	5-7 7-6(3) 3-6	L	H2H	Match data

Andreas Seppi's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 17, 2008	QF	Nicolas Kiefer	6-3 5-7 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
May 16, 2008	R16	Juan Monaco	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 2008	R32	Richard Gasquet	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 13, 2008	R64	Michael Berrer	6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data