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Vitas Gerulaitis #6 def. Butch Walts #116

6-2 6-2

Match Information

Date	Feb 4, 1979*
Tournament	Little Rock
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Vitas Gerulaitis
Score	6-2 6-2
Loser	Butch Walts

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Vitas Gerulaitis	Butch Walts
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Jul 26, 1954	Jun 4, 1955
Age	24	23
Height	183	193
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	6	116
Ranking points (entering)	0	—
Elo (entering)	2,147	1,727
Career W-L	527–231	140–135
Career earnings	$2,778,748	$454,343

Pre-match H2H

Vitas Gerulaitis 2 – 0 Butch Walts

Path

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 3, 1979	SF	John James	6-0 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 3, 1979	QF	John Sadri	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 2, 1979	R16	David Schneider	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 1, 1979	R32	Howard Schoenfield	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Vitas Gerulaitis's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Butch Walts's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 3, 1979	SF	Bill Scanlon	6-4 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 3, 1979	QF	Colin Dibley	6-7 6-3 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 2, 1979	R16	Christophe Freyss	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 1, 1979	R32	Tom Gullikson	6-4 6-7 7-6	W	—	Match data