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Vitas Gerulaitis #5 def. Geoff Masters #92

6-3 6-4 6-2

Match Information

Date	Oct 30, 1977*
Tournament	Perth
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Vitas Gerulaitis
Score	6-3 6-4 6-2
Loser	Geoff Masters

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Vitas Gerulaitis	Geoff Masters
Country	USA	AUS
Birth date	Jul 26, 1954	Sep 19, 1950
Age	23	27
Height	183	—
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	5	92
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,146	1,695
Career W-L	527–231	238–255
Career earnings	$2,778,748	—

Pre-match H2H

Vitas Gerulaitis 1 – 0 Geoff Masters

Path

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 29, 1977	SF	Tony Roche	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 29, 1977	QF	Jiri Hrebec	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 28, 1977	R16	Marcello Lara	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 27, 1977	R32	Mike Wayman	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Vitas Gerulaitis's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Geoff Masters's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 29, 1977	SF	Hank Pfister	3-6 6-0 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 29, 1977	QF	Richard Lewis	6-3 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 28, 1977	R16	Kim Warwick	6-1 2-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 27, 1977	R32	Karl Meiler	7-6 2-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data