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Kim Clijsters #2 def. Ai Sugiyama #16

6-3 6-2

Match Information

Date	May 17, 2003*
Tournament	Rome
Category	WTA 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Kim Clijsters
Score	6-3 6-2
Loser	Ai Sugiyama

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Kim Clijsters	Ai Sugiyama
Country	BEL	JPN
Birth date	Jun 8, 1983	Jul 5, 1975
Age	19	27
Height	174	163
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	2	16
Ranking points (entering)	4,519	1,485
Elo (entering)	2,204	1,847
Career W-L	463–127	411–362
Career earnings	$24,545,194	$8,128,126

Pre-match H2H

Kim Clijsters 2 – 3 Ai Sugiyama

Path

Kim Clijsters's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 17, 2003	QF	Anastasia Myskina	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 16, 2003	R16	Cara Black	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 2003	R32	Virginia Ruano Pascual	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Kim Clijsters's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 18, 2003	F	Amélie Mauresmo	3-6 7-6(3) 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Ai Sugiyama's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 17, 2003	QF	Tina Pisnik	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 16, 2003	R16	Patty Schnyder	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 2003	R32	Dinara Safina	6-0 2-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 2003	R64	Paola Suarez	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data