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Guillermo Vilas #3 def. Mel Purcell #30

6-4 6-0

Match Information

Date	Jul 18, 1982*
Tournament	Boston
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Guillermo Vilas
Score	6-4 6-0
Loser	Mel Purcell

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Guillermo Vilas	Mel Purcell
Country	ARG	USA
Birth date	Aug 17, 1952	Jul 18, 1959
Age	29	23
Height	180	178
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	30
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,188	1,949
Career W-L	898–282	190–164
Career earnings	$4,923,882	$796,760

Pre-match H2H

Guillermo Vilas 1 – 0 Mel Purcell

Path

Guillermo Vilas's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 17, 1982	SF	Yannick Noah	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 17, 1982	QF	Eric Fromm	6-4 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 16, 1982	R16	Tom Cain	7-5 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 15, 1982	R32	Craig Wittus	3-6 6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 14, 1982	R64	Brad Drewett	3-6 6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Guillermo Vilas's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Mel Purcell's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 17, 1982	SF	Fernando Luna	6-1 4-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 17, 1982	QF	Ivan Lendl	2-6 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 16, 1982	R16	Harold Solomon	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 15, 1982	R32	Derek Tarr	6-1 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 14, 1982	R64	Alejandro Gattiker	6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data