Rafael Nadal def. Gaston Gaudio, 2005 Stuttgart Open Final

Match Information

Date: Jul 24, 2005*
Tournament: Stuttgart Open
Edition: 2005
Category: ATP International Series Gold → modern equivalent ATP 500
Surface: Clay
Round: F
Duration: 2h 41m

Match Statistics

Stat	Rafael Nadal	Gaston Gaudio
Aces	3	4
Double faults	2	1
First serve %	69.0%	65.0%
First serve points won %	70.0%	59.0%
Second serve points won %	46.0%	42.0%
Break points saved %	60.0%	71.0%
Break points converted %	29.0%	40.0%
Service points won %	63.0%	53.0%
Return points won %	47.0%	37.0%
Total points won %	54.0%	46.0%
Match Serve+	0.0	-9.5
Match Return+	+9.5	0.0

* Match Serve+ and Match Return+ compare this match with the ATP 2005 average from available match stats. Zero is average; +5 means five percentage points above average. No opponent adjustment.

Player Comparison

Field	Rafael Nadal	Gaston Gaudio
Country	ESP	ARG
Birth date	Jun 3, 1986	Dec 9, 1978
Age	19	26
Height	185 cm	175 cm
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	One-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	3	13
Ranking points (entering)	3,750	1,590
Elo (entering)	2,123	1,951
Current career W-L	1,056–228	253–189
Current career earnings	$134,946,100	$6,066,156

Pre-match H2H

Rafael Nadal #3 1 – 3 Gaston Gaudio #13

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Path

Rafael Nadal's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Jarkko Nieminen #66	6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data	Jul 23, 2005	SF
Tomas Zib #57	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data	Jul 23, 2005	QF
Fernando Verdasco #58	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Jul 22, 2005	R16
Hugo Armando #167	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Jul 21, 2005	R32

Rafael Nadal's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Gaston Gaudio's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Nikolay Davydenko #7	6-3 2-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data	Jul 23, 2005	SF
Mariano Zabaleta #93	6-4 1-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Jul 23, 2005	QF
Paul-Henri Mathieu #56	6-2 6-7(3) 6-0	W	H2H	Match data	Jul 22, 2005	R16
Andreas Beck #357	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Jul 21, 2005	R32