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Lleyton Hewitt #1 def. Pete Sampras #13

6-2 6-4

Match Information

Date	Mar 17, 2002*
Tournament	Indian Wells Masters
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Lleyton Hewitt
Score	6-2 6-4
Loser	Pete Sampras
Duration	1h 23m

Stat	Lleyton Hewitt	Pete Sampras
Aces	3	3
Double faults	1	3
First serve %	73	69
First serve points won %	76	57
Second serve points won %	79	52
Break points saved %	—	57
Break points converted %	43	—
Service points won %	76	55
Return points won %	45	24
Total points won %	58	42

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Lleyton Hewitt	Pete Sampras
Country	AUS	USA
Birth date	Feb 24, 1981	Aug 12, 1971
Age	21	30
Height	178	185
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	One-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	1	13
Ranking points (entering)	4,245	1,950
Elo (entering)	2,121	1,989
Career W-L	564–241	737–208
Career earnings	$20,890,470	$43,280,489

Pre-match H2H

Lleyton Hewitt 4 – 4 Pete Sampras

Path

Lleyton Hewitt's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 17, 2002	QF	Thomas Enqvist	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 16, 2002	R16	Jan-Michael Gambill	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 2002	R32	Andrei Pavel	4-6 6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 2002	R64	Carlos Moya	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Lleyton Hewitt's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 18, 2002	F	Tim Henman	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Pete Sampras's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 17, 2002	QF	Rainer Schuettler	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 16, 2002	R16	Fabrice Santoro	6-3 3-6 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 2002	R32	Albert Costa	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 2002	R64	Mardy Fish	7-6(5) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data