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Ivan Lendl#3 def. Steve Denton#15

6-2 7-6

Match Information

Date	Aug 23, 1982*
Tournament	Cincinnati
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	6-2 7-6
Loser	Steve Denton

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	Steve Denton
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	Sep 5, 1956
Age	22	25
Height	188	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	15
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,323	1,894
Career W-L	1,051–229	109–116
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$1,084,664

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 2 – 0 Steve Denton

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1982	SF	Jimmy Connors	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1982	QF	Gene Mayer	(w/o)	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 21, 1982	R16	Gilles Moretton	6-4 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1982	R32	Ramesh Krishnan	6-4 6-2	W	—	Match data
Aug 18, 1982	R64	Dick Stockton	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Steve Denton's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1982	SF	John McEnroe	7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1982	QF	Vitas Gerulaitis	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 21, 1982	R16	Matt Mitchell	7-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1982	R32	Francisco Gonzalez	3-6 6-3 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1982	R64	Jiri Granat	6-2 2-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data