Points won by each set: | 26-21, 50-45, 31-34, 34-29 |
Points won directly behind the serve:
16 % Ferrero – 21 of 129
12 % Hewitt – 18 of 141
They faced each other 10 times (Hewitt 6-4), four times in the finals, always creating very interesting matches in them. Ferrero won the first of those finals (3 hours 36 minutes), Hewitt won another three (deciding set was always required). The 21-year-old Spaniard [12] had a mental advantage over the one year younger Australian [7] because the pressure was bigger on Hewitt. Rafter was injured on day one, so even if Ferrero had lost to Hewitt, the Spaniards would have been heavy favourites to win the Cup anyway on the home soil (Rafter 1:1 vs Corretja, 0:1 vs Costa in H2Hs at the time). The crucial was set no. 2 – Ferrero saved a double set point in the 12th game on serve, in the ensuing tie-break he trailed 1:3 & *4:5. Hewitt had a long streak of holding between sets 2 and 4 (saved break points in four games), but in the end he was broken twice in a row, in the last game of the final after saving three match points – Ferrero played a perfect BH passing-shot to convert the fourth MP, then sank in the arms of his teammates. Spaniards won the Davis Cup for the first time in history, and the decade of the 2000s belonged to them with the emergence of Rafael Nadal, who at the age of 14 was a flag bearer during that final against Australia! Nadal highly contributed to the titles in 2004, 2008 and 2009 as well as in 2011 and 2019 when a new structure of the competition was introduced.
Serve & volley: Ferrero 0, Hewitt 3/3
SPAIN d. AUSTRALIA 3-1 Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain: Clay (Indoor)
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) d. Albert Costa (ESP) 3-6, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) d. Patrick Rafter (AUS) 6-7(4), 7-6(2), 6-2, 3-1 ret.
Juan Balcells / Alex Corretja (ESP) d. Sandon Stolle / Mark Woodforde (AUS) 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) d. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6-2, 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-4
Patrick Rafter (AUS) vs Albert Costa (ESP) unp.
From left: Javier Duarte (captain), Alex Corretja, Albert Costa, Juan C. Ferrero & Juan Balcells
Points won by each set: | 26-21, 50-45, 31-34, 34-29 |
Points won directly behind the serve:
16 % Ferrero – 21 of 129
12 % Hewitt – 18 of 141
They faced each other 10 times (Hewitt 6-4), four times in the finals, always creating very interesting matches in them. Ferrero won the first of those finals (3 hours 36 minutes), Hewitt won another three (deciding set was always required). The 21-year-old Spaniard [12] had a mental advantage over the one year younger Australian [7] because the pressure was bigger on Hewitt. Rafter was injured on day one, so even if Ferrero had lost to Hewitt, the Spaniards would have been heavy favourites to win the Cup anyway on the home soil (Rafter 1:1 vs Corretja, 0:1 vs Costa in H2Hs at the time). The crucial was set no. 2 – Ferrero saved a double set point in the 12th game on serve, in the ensuing tie-break he trailed 1:3 & *4:5. Hewitt had a long streak of holding between sets 2 and 4 (saved break points in four games), but in the end he was broken twice in a row, in the last game of the final after saving three match points – Ferrero played a perfect BH passing-shot to convert the fourth MP, then sank in the arms of his teammates. Spaniards won the Davis Cup for the first time in history, and the decade of the 2000s belonged to them with the emergence of Rafael Nadal, who at the age of 14 was a flag bearer during that final against Australia! Nadal highly contributed to the titles in 2004, 2008 and 2009 as well as in 2011 and 2019 when a new structure of the competition was introduced.
Serve & volley: Ferrero 0, Hewitt 3/3
SPAIN d. AUSTRALIA 3-1 Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain: Clay (Indoor)
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) d. Albert Costa (ESP) 3-6, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) d. Patrick Rafter (AUS) 6-7(4), 7-6(2), 6-2, 3-1 ret.
Juan Balcells / Alex Corretja (ESP) d. Sandon Stolle / Mark Woodforde (AUS) 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) d. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6-2, 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-4
Patrick Rafter (AUS) vs Albert Costa (ESP) unp.
From left: Javier Duarte (captain), Alex Corretja, Albert Costa, Juan C. Ferrero & Juan Balcells
En route to its first Davis Cup title, Spain defeated: Italy 4-1, Russia 4-1, USA 5-0, Australia 3-1
Points for the team:
4.5 – Alex Corretja
4 – Juan Carlos Ferrero
3 – Albert Costa
2 – Juan Balcells
0.5 – Francisco Clavet