Roscoe Tanner #12 def. Brian Gottfried #8

6-4 6-2

Roscoe Tanner defeated Brian Gottfried 6-4 6-2 in the 1979 Indian Wells Open final on hard courts.

Match Information

Date: Feb 18, 1979*
Tournament: Indian Wells Open
Edition: 1979
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Hard
Round: F

Match Statistics

Our current data sources do not include detailed match statistics for this match.

Player Comparison

Field	Roscoe Tanner	Brian Gottfried
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Oct 15, 1951	Jan 27, 1952
Age	27	27
Height	183 cm	183 cm
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	12	8
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	2,047	2,038
Current career W-L	592–294	690–321
Current career earnings	$1,696,198	$2,782,514

Pre-match H2H

Roscoe Tanner #12 3 – 4 Brian Gottfried #8

Path

Roscoe Tanner's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Eliot Teltscher #46	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 17, 1979	SF
Jimmy Connors #1	4-6 6-3 7-6	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 17, 1979	QF
Gene Mayer #60	4-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 16, 1979	R16
Cliff Drysdale #96	5-7 7-5 7-5	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 15, 1979	R32
Brian Teacher #30	6-3 5-7 6-3	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 14, 1979	R64

Roscoe Tanner's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Brian Gottfried's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Harold Solomon #7	1-6 7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 17, 1979	SF
Tom Okker #48	6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 17, 1979	QF
Jose Higueras #17	4-6 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 16, 1979	R16
Terry Moor #78	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Feb 15, 1979	R32
Lito Alvarez	6-3 6-1	W	—	Match data	Feb 14, 1979	R64