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Jimmy Connors#3 def. Ivan Lendl#6

6-3 7-6

Match Information

Date	Feb 22, 1981*
Tournament	La Quinta
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Jimmy Connors
Score	6-3 7-6
Loser	Ivan Lendl

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jimmy Connors	Ivan Lendl
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Sep 2, 1952	Mar 7, 1960
Age	28	20
Height	177	188
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	6
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,201	2,166
Career W-L	1,262–294	1,051–229
Career earnings	$8,641,040	$21,262,417

Pre-match H2H

Jimmy Connors 6 – 0 Ivan Lendl

Path

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 21, 1981	SF	Eliot Teltscher	6-3 6-7 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 21, 1981	QF	Pat Dupre	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1981	R16	Terry Moor	6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 19, 1981	R32	Chris Dunk	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 18, 1981	R64	Dick Stockton	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Jimmy Connors's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 21, 1981	SF	Harold Solomon	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 21, 1981	QF	Roscoe Tanner	7-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 20, 1981	R16	Bob Lutz	6-1 4-6 6-4	W	—	Match data
Feb 19, 1981	R32	Marty Davis	7-6 6-7 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 18, 1981	R64	Stan Smith	6-1 7-5	W	—	Match data