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Brian Gottfried #8 def. Harold Solomon #7

1-6 7-5 6-2

Match Information

Date	Feb 17, 1979*
Tournament	Rancho Mirage
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Brian Gottfried
Score	1-6 7-5 6-2
Loser	Harold Solomon

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Brian Gottfried	Harold Solomon
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Jan 27, 1952	Sep 17, 1952
Age	27	26
Height	183	168
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	8	7
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,023	1,981
Career W-L	695–322	578–334
Career earnings	$2,782,514	$1,802,769

Pre-match H2H

Brian Gottfried 5 – 10 Harold Solomon

Path

Brian Gottfried's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 17, 1979	QF	Tom Okker	6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 16, 1979	R16	Jose Higueras	4-6 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 15, 1979	R32	Terry Moor	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 14, 1979	R64	Lito Alvarez	6-3 6-1	W	—	Match data

Brian Gottfried's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 18, 1979	F	Roscoe Tanner	4-6 2-6	L	H2H	Match data

Harold Solomon's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 17, 1979	QF	Wojtek Fibak	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 16, 1979	R16	Dick Stockton	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 15, 1979	R32	Peter Mcnamara	6-2 6-2	W	—	Match data
Feb 14, 1979	R64	George Hardie	3-6 6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data