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Venus Williams #2 def. Clarisa Fernandez #87

6-1 6-4

Match Information

Date	Jun 8, 2002*
Tournament	Roland Garros
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Venus Williams
Score	6-1 6-4
Loser	Clarisa Fernandez

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Venus Williams	Clarisa Fernandez
Country	USA	ARG
Birth date	Jun 17, 1980	Aug 28, 1981
Age	21	20
Height	185	179
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	2	87
Ranking points (entering)	4,591	425
Elo (entering)	2,314	1,663
Career W-L	768–288	40–46
Career earnings	$43,095,580	$678,184

Pre-match H2H

Venus Williams 0 – 0 Clarisa Fernandez

Path

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 2002	QF	Monica Seles	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 4, 2002	R16	Chanda Rubin	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 2, 2002	R32	Rita Grande	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 2002	R64	Wynne Prakusya	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 29, 2002	R128	Bianka Lamade	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Venus Williams's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 9, 2002	F	Serena Williams	5-7 3-6	L	H2H	Match data

Clarisa Fernandez's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 2002	QF	Paola Suarez	2-6 7-6(5) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 4, 2002	R16	Elena Dementieva	3-6 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 2, 2002	R32	Kim Clijsters	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 2002	R64	Jelena Kostanic Tosic	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 29, 2002	R128	Lubomira Bacheva	7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data