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Dinara Safina #7 def. Flavia Pennetta #19

6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Sep 4, 2008*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Dinara Safina
Score	6-2 6-3
Loser	Flavia Pennetta

Stat	Dinara Safina	Flavia Pennetta
Aces	3	3
Double faults	5	1
First serve %	58	63
First serve points won %	83	56
Second serve points won %	41	45
Break points saved %	0	56
Break points converted %	44	100
Service points won %	65	52
Return points won %	48	35
Total points won %	57	43

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Dinara Safina	Flavia Pennetta
Country	RUS	ITA
Birth date	Apr 27, 1986	Feb 25, 1982
Age	22	26
Height	182	172
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	7	19
Ranking points (entering)	3,047	1,335
Elo (entering)	2,060	1,835
Career W-L	299–160	418–272
Career earnings	$10,585,640	$14,197,886

Pre-match H2H

Dinara Safina 4 – 0 Flavia Pennetta

Path

Dinara Safina's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2008	R16	Anna-Lena Groenefeld	7-5 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2008	R32	Timea Bacsinszky	3-6 7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 2008	R64	Roberta Vinci	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2008	R128	Kristie Ahn	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Dinara Safina's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 2008	SF	Serena Williams	3-6 2-6	L	H2H	Match data

Flavia Pennetta's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2008	R16	Amélie Mauresmo	6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2008	R32	Nadia Petrova	4-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 2008	R64	Shuai Peng	6-2 6-7(8) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2008	R128	Stefanie Voegele	2-6 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data