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Flavia Pennetta #14 def. Maria Sharapova #61

6-2 4-6 6-3

Match Information

Date	Aug 8, 2009*
Tournament	Los Angeles
Category	WTA 500
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Flavia Pennetta
Score	6-2 4-6 6-3
Loser	Maria Sharapova

Stat	Flavia Pennetta	Maria Sharapova
Aces	1	3
Double faults	5	16
First serve %	53	61
First serve points won %	62	63
Second serve points won %	42	23
Break points saved %	50	47
Break points converted %	53	50
Service points won %	53	47
Return points won %	53	47
Total points won %	53	47

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Flavia Pennetta	Maria Sharapova
Country	ITA	RUS
Birth date	Feb 25, 1982	Apr 19, 1987
Age	27	22
Height	172	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	14	61
Ranking points (entering)	2,830	970
Elo (entering)	1,898	2,047
Career W-L	418–272	596–174
Career earnings	$14,197,886	$38,777,962

Pre-match H2H

Flavia Pennetta 0 – 2 Maria Sharapova

Path

Flavia Pennetta's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 8, 2009	QF	Vera Zvonareva	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 7, 2009	R16	Nadia Petrova	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 6, 2009	R32	Coco Vandeweghe	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 5, 2009	R64	Varvara Lepchenko	6-2 5-7 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Flavia Pennetta's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 9, 2009	F	Samantha Stosur	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Maria Sharapova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 8, 2009	QF	Urszula Radwanska	6-4 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 7, 2009	R16	Alona Bondarenko	4-6 6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 6, 2009	R32	Victoria Azarenka	6-7(4) 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 5, 2009	R64	Jarmila Wolfe	6-0 6-4	W	H2H	Match data