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Rod Laver #9 def. Roscoe Tanner #26

6-4 6-2

Match Information

Date	Apr 6, 1974*
Tournament	Palm Desert Wct
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Rod Laver
Score	6-4 6-2
Loser	Roscoe Tanner

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Rod Laver	Roscoe Tanner
Country	AUS	USA
Birth date	Aug 9, 1938	Oct 15, 1951
Age	35	22
Height	175	183
Handedness	Left-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	9	26
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	2,067	1,874
Career W-L	576–147	595–298
Career earnings	$1,565,413	$1,696,198

Pre-match H2H

Rod Laver 1 – 1 Roscoe Tanner

Path

Rod Laver's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 5, 1974	SF	Arthur Ashe	6-7(6) 7-6(6) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 5, 1974	QF	Dennis Ralston	7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 4, 1974	R16	Tito Vazquez	7-6 7-5	W	—	Match data
Apr 3, 1974	R32	Mike Machette	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Rod Laver's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Roscoe Tanner's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 5, 1974	SF	Eddie Dibbs	7-6(5) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 5, 1974	QF	Harold Solomon	7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 4, 1974	R16	Bob Kreiss	6-4 6-2	W	—	Match data
Apr 3, 1974	R32	Bjorn Borg	5-7 6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data