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Number Sense: Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal, Round 33
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By Nick Georgandis


Compelling numbers from the Final Four matchups of the Australian Open.

10.2% - Percentage of Roger Federer's career losses that have come to one man - Rafael Nadal. Federer has 216 total losses in his career, 22 of them to Nadal.

31.3%, 83.5% - Federer's career winning percentage against Nadal (10-22) followed by his career winning percentage against everyone else combined (921-194).

9 - Federer's win over Andy Murray in the quarterfinals was just the eighth time in a Grand Slam that he has played against an opponent ranked higher than him  since 2002. Federer is 3-6 in those matches.

3 - Friday will be just the third time Nadal and Federer have met in a Grand Slam semifinal. The other two times were the 2012 Australian Open (won by Nadal in 4 sets) and the 2005 French Open (won by Nadal in 4 sets). Their other nine Grand Slam meetings have all been in finals, with Nadal owning a commanding 7-2 lead.

2004 - The last time two women seeded 20th or lower reached at least the semifinals of the Australian Open before this year with Eugenie Bouchard and Dominka Cibulkova pulling the trick. In 2004, it was 32nd seed Fabiol Zuluaga and 22nd seedPatty Schnyder. The pair lost to No. 1 Justine Henin-Hardenne and No. 2 Kim Clijsters in the final four.

4 - This will be Li Na's fourth Grand Slam final since 2011. The only woman to play in more in that time span is Serena Wililams (5), while Victoria Azarenka has also played in four.

1 - Dominka Cibulkova is the first Slovak player male or female, to reach a Grand Slam final.

17 - Despite being a county of just 7,997,000 people, Switzerland has had at least one Grand Slam finalist in 17 of the last 18 years. Martina Hingis reached at least one Slam final from 1997-2002 and Roger Federer from 2003-2012. After being shut out in 2013, the country already has its first finalist of the 2014 in Stanislas Wawrinka.
Posted: 1/23/2014 10:49:49 AM

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