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Phil Dent #77 def. Hank Pfister #37

6-4 6-4 7-5

Match Information

Date	Dec 23, 1979*
Tournament	Sydney Outdoor
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Grass
Round	F
Winner	Phil Dent
Score	6-4 6-4 7-5
Loser	Hank Pfister

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Phil Dent	Hank Pfister
Country	AUS	USA
Birth date	Feb 14, 1950	Oct 9, 1953
Age	29	26
Height	183	193
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	77	37
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	1,814	1,916
Career W-L	418–351	260–213

Pre-match H2H

Phil Dent 0 – 0 Hank Pfister

Path

Phil Dent's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Dec 22, 1979	SF	John James	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Dec 22, 1979	QF	Balazs Taroczy	7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Dec 21, 1979	R16	Victor Amaya	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Dec 20, 1979	R32	John Marks	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Dec 19, 1979	R64	Ken Rosewall	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Phil Dent's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Hank Pfister's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Dec 22, 1979	SF	Guillermo Vilas	7-6 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Dec 22, 1979	QF	Kim Warwick	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Dec 21, 1979	R16	Geoff Masters	6-3 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Dec 20, 1979	R32	John Fitzgerald	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Dec 19, 1979	R64	Steve Docherty	7-6 4-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data