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Jimmy Connors #1 def. Vitas Gerulaitis #4

6-5 6-0 6-4

Match Information

Date	Feb 26, 1979*
Tournament	Dorado Beach
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Jimmy Connors
Score	6-5 6-0 6-4
Loser	Vitas Gerulaitis

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jimmy Connors	Vitas Gerulaitis
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Sep 2, 1952	Jul 26, 1954
Age	26	24
Height	177	183
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	4
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,358	2,172
Career W-L	1,262–294	527–231
Career earnings	$8,641,040	$2,778,748

Pre-match H2H

Jimmy Connors 13 – 2 Vitas Gerulaitis

Path

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Ilie Nastase	6-4 6-5	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Manuel Orantes	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Peter Fleming	6-4 6-5	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Adriano Panatta	4-6 6-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Vitas Gerulaitis	6-0 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Jimmy Connors's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Adriano Panatta	6-2 6-5	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Manuel Orantes	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Peter Fleming	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1979	RR	Ilie Nastase	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data