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Bjorn Borg #1 def. Jimmy Connors #2

6-3 6-2

Match Information

Date	Apr 29, 1979*
Tournament	Las Vegas
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Bjorn Borg
Score	6-3 6-2
Loser	Jimmy Connors

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Bjorn Borg	Jimmy Connors
Country	SWE	USA
Birth date	Jun 6, 1956	Sep 2, 1952
Age	22	26
Height	180	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	2
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,334	2,381
Career W-L	608–143	1,262–294
Career earnings	$3,655,751	$8,641,040

Pre-match H2H

Bjorn Borg 6 – 8 Jimmy Connors

Path

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 28, 1979	SF	Gene Mayer	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 28, 1979	QF	Tim Gullikson	6-2 6-3	W	—	Match data
Apr 27, 1979	R16	John Alexander	5-7 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 26, 1979	R32	Hank Pfister	2-6 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Bjorn Borg's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 28, 1979	SF	John McEnroe	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 28, 1979	QF	Roscoe Tanner	6-7 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 27, 1979	R16	Dick Stockton	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 26, 1979	R32	Pat Dupre	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data