Tennis Masters Cup 2002

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The Tennis Masters Cup 2002 took place from November 11th to 17th, 2002 in the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC) in Shanghai and thus for the first time in China ; it was played indoors on a hard court. This was the 33rd edition of the tournament in singles, in doubles it was not played. The Tennis Masters Cup was next to the four Grand Slams the most important tournament in men's professional tennis, it took place at the end of the season and is part of the ATP Tour .

The winner was the Australian Lleyton Hewitt . It was his second title; he was thus able to defend the title from the previous year .

Results

Qualified players

Seeding list rank player
1 1 AustraliaAustralia Lleyton Hewitt
2 2 United StatesUnited States Andre Agassi
3 3 RussiaRussia Marat Safin
4th 4th SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero
5 5 SpainSpain Carlos Moyá
6th 6th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer
7th 7th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Novák
8th 8th SpainSpain Albert Costa
1. Substitute player SwedenSweden Thomas Johansson

Red group

Results

winner opponent Result
AustraliaAustralia Lleyton Hewitt RussiaRussia Marat Safin 6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 4
SpainSpain Carlos Moyá RussiaRussia Marat Safin 6: 4, 7: 5
AustraliaAustralia Lleyton Hewitt SpainSpain Albert Costa 6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 3
SpainSpain Albert Costa RussiaRussia Marat Safin 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
SpainSpain Carlos Moyá SpainSpain Albert Costa 7: 6 7 , 3: 6, 6: 4
SpainSpain Carlos Moyá AustraliaAustralia Lleyton Hewitt 6: 4, 7: 5

table

Item Seeding list player sentences Points
1 5 SpainSpain Carlos Moyá 6: 1 3-0
2 1 AustraliaAustralia Lleyton Hewitt 4: 4 2: 1
3 8th SpainSpain Albert Costa 4: 5 1: 2
4th 3 RussiaRussia Marat Safin 2: 6 0: 3

Blue group

Results

winner opponent Result
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 6: 3, 6: 4
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Novák United StatesUnited States Andre Agassi 7: 5, 6: 1
SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero United StatesUnited States Andre Agassi 7: 5, 2: 6, 7: 6 6
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Novák 6: 0, 4: 6, 6: 2
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer SwedenSweden Thomas Johansson 1 6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 3
SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Novák 7: 5, 6: 3

1 Johansson replaces Agassi after a hip injury.

table

Item Seeding list player sentences Points
1 6th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer 6: 1 3-0
2 4th SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 4: 3 2: 1
3 7th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Novák 3: 4 1: 2
4th 2 / ES 1 United StatesUnited States Andre Agassi Thomas Johansson
SwedenSweden 		1: 6 0: 3

1 substitute

Semifinals

player player Result
SpainSpain Carlos Moyá SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 7: 6 6 , 4: 6, 4: 6
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer AustraliaAustralia Lleyton Hewitt 5: 7, 7: 5, 5: 7

final

player player Result
AustraliaAustralia Lleyton Hewitt SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 7: 5, 7: 5, 2: 6, 2: 6, 6: 4

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