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Guillermo Vilas#7 def. Vitas Gerulaitis#19

6-4 7-5

Match Information

Date	Jul 18, 1981*
Tournament	Kitzbuhel
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Guillermo Vilas
Score	6-4 7-5
Loser	Vitas Gerulaitis

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Guillermo Vilas	Vitas Gerulaitis
Country	ARG	USA
Birth date	Aug 17, 1952	Jul 26, 1954
Age	28	26
Height	180	183
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	7	19
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,054	1,962
Career W-L	898–282	527–231
Career earnings	$4,923,882	$2,778,748

Pre-match H2H

Guillermo Vilas 4 – 2 Vitas Gerulaitis

Path

Guillermo Vilas's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 18, 1981	QF	Per Hjertquist	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 17, 1981	R16	Ramiro Benavides	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 16, 1981	R32	Ricardo Acuna	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 15, 1981	R64	Jiri Hrebec	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Guillermo Vilas's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 19, 1981	F	John Fitzgerald	3-6 6-3 7-5	L	H2H	Match data

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 18, 1981	QF	Fernando Luna	4-6 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 17, 1981	R16	Pavel Hutka	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 16, 1981	R32	Alejandro Gattiker	7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 15, 1981	R64	Lloyd Bourne	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data