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Ivan Lendl#1 def. Yannick Noah#4

1-6 6-2 7-6

Match Information

Date	May 18, 1986*
Tournament	Rome
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	1-6 6-2 7-6
Loser	Yannick Noah

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	Yannick Noah
Country	USA	FRA
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	May 18, 1960
Age	26	26
Height	188	194
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	4
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,374	2,066
Career W-L	1,051–229	456–194
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$3,440,660

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 6 – 5 Yannick Noah

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 18, 1986	QF	Henri Leconte	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 17, 1986	R16	Paolo Cane	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 1986	R32	Bruce Derlin	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 1986	R64	Francesco Cancellotti	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 19, 1986	F	Emilio Sanchez	7-5 4-6 6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Yannick Noah's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 18, 1986	QF	Diego Perez	7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 17, 1986	R16	Kent Carlsson	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 1986	R32	Claudio Pistolesi	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 1986	R64	Broderick Dyke	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data