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John McEnroe #1 def. Ivan Lendl #2

6-4 6-2

Match Information

Date	May 12, 1984*
Tournament	Forest Hills Wct
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	John McEnroe
Score	6-4 6-2
Loser	Ivan Lendl

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	John McEnroe	Ivan Lendl
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Feb 16, 1959	Mar 7, 1960
Age	25	24
Height	180	188
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	2
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,397	2,255
Career W-L	833–189	1,051–229
Career earnings	$12,552,132	$21,262,417

Pre-match H2H

John McEnroe 8 – 7 Ivan Lendl

Path

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 11, 1984	SF	Jimmy Arias	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 11, 1984	QF	Johan Kriek	4-6 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 10, 1984	R16	Steve Denton	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 9, 1984	R32	Derek Tarr	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

John McEnroe's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 11, 1984	SF	Jimmy Connors	6-0 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 11, 1984	QF	Steve Meister	7-5 3-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 10, 1984	R16	Ramesh Krishnan	6-2 3-6 6-1	W	—	Match data
May 9, 1984	R32	John Sadri	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data