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Victoria Azarenka #1 def. Maria Sharapova #2

6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Mar 11, 2012*
Tournament	Indian Wells
Category	WTA 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Victoria Azarenka
Score	6-2 6-3
Loser	Maria Sharapova

Stat	Victoria Azarenka	Maria Sharapova
Aces	1	2
Double faults	2	3
First serve %	67	75
First serve points won %	71	46
Second serve points won %	53	31
Break points saved %	33	50
Break points converted %	50	67
Service points won %	65	42
Return points won %	58	35
Total points won %	61	39

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Victoria Azarenka	Maria Sharapova
Country	BLR	RUS
Birth date	Jul 31, 1989	Apr 19, 1987
Age	22	24
Height	183	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	2
Ranking points (entering)	8,980	7,680
Elo (entering)	2,163	2,037
Career W-L	575–266	596–174
Career earnings	$38,890,473	$38,777,962

Pre-match H2H

Victoria Azarenka 4 – 3 Maria Sharapova

Path

Victoria Azarenka's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 10, 2012	SF	Angelique Kerber	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 10, 2012	QF	Agnieszka Radwanska	6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 9, 2012	R16	Julia Goerges	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 8, 2012	R32	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 7, 2012	R64	Mona Barthel	6-4 6-7(4) 7-6(6)	W	H2H	Match data

Victoria Azarenka's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Maria Sharapova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 10, 2012	SF	Ana Ivanovic	6-4 0-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 10, 2012	QF	Maria Kirilenko	3-6 7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 9, 2012	R16	Roberta Vinci	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 8, 2012	R32	Simona Halep	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 7, 2012	R64	Gisela Dulko	6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data