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Maria Sharapova #3 def. Daria Saville #78

7-5 6-3

Match Information

Date	May 16, 2015*
Tournament	Rome
Category	WTA 500
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Maria Sharapova
Score	7-5 6-3
Loser	Daria Saville

Stat	Maria Sharapova	Daria Saville
Aces	3	0
Double faults	3	2
First serve %	75	70
First serve points won %	73	55
Second serve points won %	93	71
Break points saved %	50	73
Break points converted %	27	50
Service points won %	78	60
Return points won %	40	22
Total points won %	57	43

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Maria Sharapova	Daria Saville
Country	RUS	AUS
Birth date	Apr 19, 1987	Mar 5, 1994
Age	28	21
Height	188	166
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	78
Ranking points (entering)	6,915	734
Elo (entering)	2,057	1,679
Career W-L	596–174	156–153
Career earnings	$38,777,962	$6,213,083

Pre-match H2H

Maria Sharapova 0 – 1 Daria Saville

Path

Maria Sharapova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 16, 2015	QF	Victoria Azarenka	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 2015	R16	Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 2015	R32	Jarmila Wolfe	6-2 3-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data

Maria Sharapova's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 17, 2015	F	Carla Suárez Navarro	4-6 7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Daria Saville's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 16, 2015	QF	Christina Mchale	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 2015	R16	Timea Bacsinszky	6-4 7-6(0)	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 2015	R32	Ana Ivanovic	5-7 7-6(2) 7-6(7)	W	H2H	Match data
May 13, 2015	R64	Belinda Bencic	6-7(2) 7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data