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Roscoe Tanner#4 def. Ivan Lendl#25

6-3 6-2 6-1

Match Information

Date	Sep 1, 1979*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R64
Winner	Roscoe Tanner
Score	6-3 6-2 6-1
Loser	Ivan Lendl

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roscoe Tanner	Ivan Lendl
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Oct 15, 1951	Mar 7, 1960
Age	27	19
Height	183	188
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	4	25
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,086	1,847
Career W-L	595–298	1,051–229
Career earnings	$1,696,198	$21,262,417

Pre-match H2H

Roscoe Tanner 0 – 0 Ivan Lendl

Path

Roscoe Tanner's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 30, 1979	R128	John Marks	6-4 6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Roscoe Tanner's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1979	R32	Nick Saviano	6-4 6-4 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 30, 1979	R128	Vincent Van Patten	6-4 6-1 6-0	W	—	Match data