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Mel Purcell #30 def. Gilles Moretton #192

6-4 6-2

Match Information

Date	Aug 23, 1981*
Tournament	Atlanta
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Mel Purcell
Score	6-4 6-2
Loser	Gilles Moretton

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Mel Purcell	Gilles Moretton
Country	USA	FRA
Birth date	Jul 18, 1959	Feb 10, 1958
Age	22	23
Height	178	190
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	30	192
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,939	1,709
Career W-L	190–164	59–89
Career earnings	$796,760	—

Pre-match H2H

Mel Purcell 1 – 0 Gilles Moretton

Path

Mel Purcell's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1981	SF	Eliot Teltscher	6-4 5-7 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1981	QF	Tim Mayotte	7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 21, 1981	R16	Jeff Davis	6-3 6-2	W	—	Match data
Aug 20, 1981	R32	Ben Testerman	7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Mel Purcell's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Gilles Moretton's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1981	SF	Fritz Buehning	5-7 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1981	QF	Phil Dent	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 21, 1981	R16	Tony Graham	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 20, 1981	R32	Ross Case	2-6 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data