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Jimmy Connors#1 def. Bjorn Borg#2

6-4 3-6 7-6 6-4

Match Information

Date	Sep 15, 1976*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Jimmy Connors
Score	6-4 3-6 7-6 6-4
Loser	Bjorn Borg

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jimmy Connors	Bjorn Borg
Country	USA	SWE
Birth date	Sep 2, 1952	Jun 6, 1956
Age	24	20
Height	177	180
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	2
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,355	2,329
Career W-L	1,262–294	608–143
Career earnings	$8,641,040	$3,655,751

Pre-match H2H

Jimmy Connors 5 – 1 Bjorn Borg

Path

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 14, 1976	SF	Guillermo Vilas	6-4 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 12, 1976	QF	Jan Kodes	7-5 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 1976	R16	Vitas Gerulaitis	6-4 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 1976	R32	Fred Mcnair	7-5 6-3	W	—	Match data
Sep 5, 1976	R64	Peter Fleming	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1976	R128	Bob Hewitt	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Jimmy Connors's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 14, 1976	SF	Ilie Nastase	6-3 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 12, 1976	QF	Manuel Orantes	4-6 6-0 6-2 5-7 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 1976	R16	Brian Gottfried	6-7 3-6 6-4 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 1976	R32	John Lloyd	6-3 6-3	W	—	Match data
Sep 5, 1976	R64	Jaime Fillol	4-6 6-2 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1976	R128	Cliff Letcher	6-2 6-2	W	—	Match data