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Svetlana Kuznetsova #3 def. Maria Sharapova #5

6-3 5-7 6-2

Match Information

Date	Mar 15, 2008*
Tournament	Indian Wells
Category	WTA 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Svetlana Kuznetsova
Score	6-3 5-7 6-2
Loser	Maria Sharapova

Stat	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Maria Sharapova
Aces	2	1
Double faults	6	8
First serve %	61	67
First serve points won %	73	64
Second serve points won %	51	40
Break points saved %	62	58
Break points converted %	42	38
Service points won %	64	56
Return points won %	44	36
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Maria Sharapova
Country	RUS	RUS
Birth date	Jun 27, 1985	Apr 19, 1987
Age	22	20
Height	174	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	3	5
Ranking points (entering)	3,750	3,526
Elo (entering)	2,023	2,214
Career W-L	580–319	596–174
Career earnings	$25,816,890	$38,777,962

Pre-match H2H

Svetlana Kuznetsova 3 – 4 Maria Sharapova

Path

Svetlana Kuznetsova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 15, 2008	QF	Agnieszka Radwanska	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 2008	R16	Caroline Wozniacki	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 2008	R32	Dominika Cibulkova	6-1 4-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2008	R64	Ekaterina Makarova	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Svetlana Kuznetsova's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 16, 2008	F	Ana Ivanovic	4-6 3-6	L	H2H	Match data

Maria Sharapova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 15, 2008	QF	Daniela Hantuchova	7-6(2) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 2008	R16	Alona Bondarenko	6-2 5-7 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 2008	R32	Eleni Daniilidou	7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 2008	R64	Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data