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Jimmy Connors #1 def. Ivan Lendl #2

6-3 6-2 4-6 6-4

Match Information

Date	Sep 14, 1982*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Jimmy Connors
Score	6-3 6-2 4-6 6-4
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	30	22
Height	177	188
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	2
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,277	2,357
Career W-L	1,262–294	1,051–229
Career earnings	$8,641,040	$21,262,417

Pre-match H2H

Jimmy Connors 7 – 1 Ivan Lendl

Path

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 13, 1982	SF	Guillermo Vilas	6-1 3-6 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 11, 1982	QF	Rodney Harmon	6-1 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 9, 1982	R16	Ilie Nastase	6-3 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 1982	R32	Jimmy Arias	6-4 4-6 6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 4, 1982	R64	Hank Pfister	6-4 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 1982	R128	Jeff Borowiak	7-6 6-2 6-3	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
Sep 13, 1982	SF	John McEnroe	6-4 6-4 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 11, 1982	QF	Kim Warwick	6-4 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 9, 1982	R16	Mats Wilander	6-2 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 1982	R32	Harold Solomon	6-3 6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 4, 1982	R64	Tim Mayotte	6-4 3-6 4-6 7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 1982	R128	Ramesh Krishnan	6-4 7-6 6-1	W	—	Match data