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Stefan Edberg #2 def. Boris Becker #4

6-4 6-1

Match Information

Date	Aug 24, 1987*
Tournament	Cincinnati
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Stefan Edberg
Score	6-4 6-1
Loser	Boris Becker

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Stefan Edberg	Boris Becker
Country	SWE	GER
Birth date	Jan 19, 1966	Nov 22, 1967
Age	21	19
Height	188	190
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	2	4
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,159	2,121
Career W-L	744–246	670–219
Career earnings	$20,630,941	$25,080,956

Pre-match H2H

Stefan Edberg 3 – 6 Boris Becker

Path

Stefan Edberg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 23, 1987	SF	Jimmy Connors	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 23, 1987	QF	Brad Gilbert	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1987	R16	Tarik Benhabiles	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 20, 1987	R32	Jakob Hlasek	7-6 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1987	R64	Jimmy Arias	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Stefan Edberg's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Boris Becker's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 23, 1987	SF	Anders Jarryd	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 23, 1987	QF	Mikael Pernfors	6-3 2-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1987	R16	Derrick Rostagno	6-4 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 20, 1987	R32	Ben Testerman	3-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1987	R64	Marcel Freeman	3-6 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data