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Bionic Poster
The ballstriking and rallies in the match are pretty good.
Ferrero had won Madrid on indoor HC in 2003, made the final of USO in 2003 (beating Hewitt and Agassi back to back). He was becoming a potent HCer.
In this match, Ferrero played pretty well in the 1st and 3rd sets, only dip was in the 2nd set where he was slightly below par.
Till 4 all in the 1st set, Ferrero was a tad better, then Federer raised his level and edged it out 6-4. Ferrero had a dip in the 2nd set and Federer continuing his excellent form took it 6-1. Third set, Ferrero played well, but Federer was just clearly better and took it 6-4.
One of Federer's best performances at the AO. Definitely in the top5 for him.
Federer hit 34 winners, forced 35 errors from Ferrero and had 22 UEs (that's +47)
Ferrero hit 21 winners, forced 23 errors from Federer and had 19 UEs (that's +25)
The other stats for the match:

Link to stats page: https://web.archive.org/web/2004020...n.com:80/en_AU/scores/stats/day17/0125ms.html
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