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Kimberly Po Messerli def. Ai Sugiyama#34

6-3 6-1

Match Information

Date	Jul 25, 1997*
Tournament	Stanford
Category	WTA 250
Surface	Hard
Round	R16
Winner	Kimberly Po Messerli
Score	6-3 6-1
Loser	Ai Sugiyama

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Kimberly Po Messerli	Ai Sugiyama
Country	—	JPN
Birth date	Oct 20, 1971	Jul 5, 1975
Age	25	22
Height	160	163
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	—	34
Ranking points (entering)	—	768
Elo (entering)	1,802	1,789
Career W-L	118–133	411–362
Career earnings	$1,926,618	$8,128,126

Pre-match H2H

Kimberly Po Messerli 2 – 2 Ai Sugiyama

Path

Kimberly Po Messerli's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 24, 1997	R32	Miriam Schnitzer	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Kimberly Po Messerli's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 26, 1997	QF	Amanda Coetzer	7-5 6-4	L	H2H	Match data

Ai Sugiyama's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 24, 1997	R32	Anne Miller	6-2 2-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data