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Bjorn Borg#1 def. Ivan Lendl#35

6-3 6-1

Match Information

Date	Aug 19, 1979*
Tournament	Montreal / Toronto
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Bjorn Borg
Score	6-3 6-1
Loser	Ivan Lendl

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Bjorn Borg	Ivan Lendl
Country	SWE	USA
Birth date	Jun 6, 1956	Mar 7, 1960
Age	23	19
Height	180	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	35
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,391	1,839
Career W-L	608–143	1,051–229
Career earnings	$3,655,751	$21,262,417

Pre-match H2H

Bjorn Borg 0 – 0 Ivan Lendl

Path

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1979	QF	Gene Mayer	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	R16	Yannick Noah	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1979	R32	Ivan Molina	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1979	R64	Bruce Manson	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Bjorn Borg's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 20, 1979	F	John McEnroe	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1979	QF	Phil Dent	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	R16	Tom Okker	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1979	R32	Colin Dowdeswell	7-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1979	R64	Marty Riessen	7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data