But in a match watched by Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo, Tipsarevic was no match for Federer, who hit 25 winners to take his head-to-head record over the Serb to 5-0.
Djokovic had lost just one of his 19 matches since the US Open but that defeat came against Davydenko as the Russian stormed to the title in Shanghai last month, and with a 2-2 head-to-head record there was every reason to expect a tight match.
He had been expected to provide Federer with his first serious test of the tournament but a head-to-head record of 0-12 suggested Soderling might again find the Swiss a challenge he just could not overcome.
And while Sharapova leads the pair's head-to-head record 4-3, Williams is confident she can prevail despite her opponent's impressive start to the tournament.
Neither coach could remember their head-to-head record over the years but they have greatly contrasting teams.
Nadal is on a 66-match winning streak on clay and is one of the few men on the men's tour who has a favourable head-to-head record against Federer.
The two sides needed the play-off after Egypt's 2-0 win over Algeria on Saturday left the pair inseparable at the top of their group - with the same points, the same goal difference, the same number of goals scored and the same head-to-head record.
He returned to La Salle as head coach, guiding the Explorers to a 23-1 record in 1968-69 while the program was on NCAA probation.
William Miller, whom Jimmy Carter appointed to head the Fed in December 1977 and who proceeded to stoke inflation to record highs.
His Purdue teams amassed 512 victories (and, he pointed out, a 21-20 record in head-to-head battles against Bobby Knight), but he never looked like he was enjoying himself.
At the intersection of sports and protection is Ridell, who is now selling football helmets instrumented with motion sensors to monitor, record, and lessen the deleterious effects of repeated collisions to the head.
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State officials expect a record 351, 000 voters to head to polling places to perform their traditional role of clarifying the presidential field.
Yet the Trojans limped to a 7-6 record under 3rd year head coach Lane Kiffin, the worst season for the team in over a decade.
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In four seasons as head coach, Petrino led the Razorbacks to a 34-17 record, including an 11-2 record last season that included a victory in the Cotton Bowl.
Tax revenues are also at a record high, thanks to two reform-minded officials who head the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs, which have traditionally been impregnable fortresses of graft.
The match was the last in charge for Leinster head coach Michael Cheika and both sides were aiming to win the Magners League for a record third time.
Luckily there is no record of anyone dying from eating peppers, according to Paul Bosland, head of New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
So in honor of Record Store Day, unplug from the iPod, take off the headphones and head to a local store.
Unlike the Democrats, who decided to ignore Mr Kerry's weaknesses (such as his Senate record), the Republicans have tried to tackle Mr Bush's unfavourables head on.
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But if anyone is ever going to break Rose's record, three attributes will be required: skill, durability and a head start.
And shortly afterwards record signing Ashton made it two goals in as many home starts when he stooped to head in Yossi Benayoun's flick-on at the far post.
Meanwhile, song use was tracked by banks of secretaries filing index cards. (Secretary was about as high a job in the industry as a woman could hope for at the time.) Then in 1958, as record labels and studios began to line up along Music Row, BMI hired Preston to head a new office based in Nashville.
The Red Sox now head to Toronto, where Farrell could receive a chilly reception after piloting the Blue Jays to a 154-170 record the past two seasons.
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