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Roger Federer #23 def. Andrei Pavel #24

6-7(4) 6-4 6-0

Match Information

Date	Feb 24, 2001*
Tournament	Rotterdam
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Roger Federer
Score	6-7(4) 6-4 6-0
Loser	Andrei Pavel
Duration	1h 50m

Stat	Roger Federer	Andrei Pavel
Aces	13	8
Double faults	0	4
First serve %	61	67
First serve points won %	70	66
Second serve points won %	62	36
Break points saved %	67	45
Break points converted %	55	33
Service points won %	67	56
Return points won %	44	33
Total points won %	55	45

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roger Federer	Andrei Pavel
Country	SUI	ROU
Birth date	Aug 8, 1981	Jan 27, 1974
Age	19	27
Height	185	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	23	24
Ranking points (entering)	1,150	1,130
Elo (entering)	1,908	1,807
Career W-L	1,206–267	249–248
Career earnings	$130,594,339	$5,225,028

Pre-match H2H

Roger Federer 1 – 1 Andrei Pavel

Path

Roger Federer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 24, 2001	QF	Alex Corretja	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 23, 2001	R16	Sebastien Grosjean	4-6 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 22, 2001	R32	Andrew Ilie	7-6(5) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Roger Federer's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 25, 2001	F	Nicolas Escude	5-7 6-3 6-7(5)	L	H2H	Match data

Andrei Pavel's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 24, 2001	QF	Nicolas Kiefer	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 23, 2001	R16	Arnaud Clement	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 22, 2001	R32	Peter Wessels	4-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data