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John McEnroe#3 def. Eliot Teltscher#32

6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Sep 22, 1979*
Tournament	Los Angeles
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Carpet
Round	SF
Winner	John McEnroe
Score	6-2 6-3
Loser	Eliot Teltscher

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	John McEnroe	Eliot Teltscher
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Feb 16, 1959	Mar 15, 1959
Age	20	20
Height	180	178
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	32
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,325	1,928
Career W-L	833–189	392–207
Career earnings	$12,552,132	$1,653,997

Pre-match H2H

John McEnroe 2 – 2 Eliot Teltscher

Path

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 22, 1979	QF	Gene Mayer	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 21, 1979	R16	Tim Gullikson	6-3 6-4	W	—	Match data
Sep 20, 1979	R32	Ferdi Taygan	6-2 1-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

John McEnroe's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 23, 1979	F	Peter Fleming	6-4 6-4	L	H2H	Match data

Eliot Teltscher's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 22, 1979	QF	Hank Pfister	3-6 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 21, 1979	R16	Tom Gorman	6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 20, 1979	R32	Givaldo Barbosa	7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 19, 1979	R64	Cliff Drysdale	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data