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Vitas Gerulaitis#5 def. Eddie Dibbs#8

0-6 6-1 7-5 6-3

Match Information

Date	May 27, 1979*
Tournament	Rome
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Vitas Gerulaitis
Score	0-6 6-1 7-5 6-3
Loser	Eddie Dibbs

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Vitas Gerulaitis	Eddie Dibbs
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Jul 26, 1954	Feb 23, 1951
Age	24	28
Height	183	170
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	5	8
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,150	2,000
Career W-L	527–231	607–264
Career earnings	$2,778,748	$2,016,426

Pre-match H2H

Vitas Gerulaitis 1 – 3 Eddie Dibbs

Path

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 27, 1979	QF	Gianni Ocleppo	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 26, 1979	R16	John Alexander	6-7 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 24, 1979	R32	Tim Wilkison	6-2 3-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
May 23, 1979	R64	Fernando Dalla Fontana	6-1 6-2	W	—	Match data

Vitas Gerulaitis's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 28, 1979	F	Guillermo Vilas	6-7 7-6 6-7 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Eddie Dibbs's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 27, 1979	QF	Harold Solomon	2-6 6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
May 26, 1979	R16	Corrado Barazzutti	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 24, 1979	R32	Buster C Mottram	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 23, 1979	R64	Peter Mcnamara	6-4 7-5	W	—	Match data