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Mats Wilander #8 def. Mel Purcell #30

6-1 6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Apr 3, 1983*
Tournament	Monte Carlo
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Mats Wilander
Score	6-1 6-2 6-3
Loser	Mel Purcell

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Mats Wilander	Mel Purcell
Country	SWE	USA
Birth date	Aug 22, 1964	Jul 18, 1959
Age	18	23
Height	183	178
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	8	30
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,033	1,813
Career W-L	526–203	190–164
Career earnings	$7,956,101	$796,760

Pre-match H2H

Mats Wilander 1 – 0 Mel Purcell

Path

Mats Wilander's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 2, 1983	SF	Corrado Barazzutti	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 2, 1983	QF	Henri Leconte	7-5 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 1, 1983	R16	Henrik Sundstrom	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 31, 1983	R32	Balazs Taroczy	7-6 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Mats Wilander's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Mel Purcell's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 2, 1983	SF	Manuel Orantes	6-3 2-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 2, 1983	QF	Shlomo Glickstein	6-0 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 1, 1983	R16	Ilie Nastase	7-6 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 31, 1983	R32	Jimmy Arias	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data