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Boris Becker #2 def. Ivan Lendl #1

7-6 1-6 6-3 7-6

Match Information

Date	Sep 11, 1989*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Boris Becker
Score	7-6 1-6 6-3 7-6
Loser	Ivan Lendl

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Boris Becker	Ivan Lendl
Country	GER	USA
Birth date	Nov 22, 1967	Mar 7, 1960
Age	21	29
Height	190	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	2	1
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,207	2,281
Career W-L	670–219	1,051–229
Career earnings	$25,080,956	$21,262,417

Pre-match H2H

Boris Becker 6 – 7 Ivan Lendl

Path

Boris Becker's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 1989	SF	Aaron Krickstein	6-4 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 8, 1989	QF	Yannick Noah	6-3 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 1989	R16	Mikael Pernfors	5-7 6-3 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1989	R32	Miloslav Mecir	6-4 3-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 1, 1989	R64	Derrick Rostagno	1-6 6-7 6-3 7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 30, 1989	R128	David Pate	6-1 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Boris Becker'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
Sep 10, 1989	SF	Andre Agassi	7-6 6-1 3-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 8, 1989	QF	Tim Mayotte	6-4 6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 1989	R16	Andrei Chesnokov	6-3 4-6 1-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1989	R32	Jim Courier	6-1 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 1, 1989	R64	John Fitzgerald	6-2 6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 30, 1989	R128	Diego Perez	6-1 7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data