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Simona Halep #4 def. Kiki Bertens #20

7-5 6-1

Match Information

Date	May 20, 2017*
Tournament	Rome
Category	WTA 500
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Simona Halep
Score	7-5 6-1
Loser	Kiki Bertens

Stat	Simona Halep	Kiki Bertens
Aces	0	2
Double faults	0	2
First serve %	74	67
First serve points won %	68	58
Second serve points won %	62	27
Break points saved %	75	60
Break points converted %	40	25
Service points won %	66	48
Return points won %	52	34
Total points won %	58	42

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Simona Halep	Kiki Bertens
Country	ROU	NED
Birth date	Sep 27, 1991	Dec 10, 1991
Age	25	25
Height	168	182
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	4	20
Ranking points (entering)	5,205	2,064
Elo (entering)	2,000	1,751
Career W-L	446–197	214–168
Career earnings	$40,236,618	$11,653,189

Pre-match H2H

Simona Halep 1 – 1 Kiki Bertens

Path

Simona Halep's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 20, 2017	QF	Anett Kontaveit	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 19, 2017	R16	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6-1 4-6 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 18, 2017	R32	Laura Siegemund	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Simona Halep's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 21, 2017	F	Elina Svitolina	6-4 5-7 1-6	L	H2H	Match data

Kiki Bertens's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 20, 2017	QF	Daria Saville	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 19, 2017	R16	Ekaterina Makarova	7-6(3) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 18, 2017	R32	Catherine Bellis	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 17, 2017	R64	Monica Niculescu	2-6 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data