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Stefan Edberg #3 def. J. Connors #6

6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Aug 23, 1987*
Tournament	Cincinnati
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Stefan Edberg
Score	6-2 6-3
Loser	J. Connors

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Stefan Edberg	J. Connors
Country	SWE	USA
Birth date	Jan 19, 1966	Sep 2, 1952
Age	21	34
Height	188	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	6
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,147	2,048
Career W-L	744–246	1,262–294
Career earnings	$20,630,941	$8,641,040

Pre-match H2H

Stefan Edberg 2 – 5 J. Connors

Path

Stefan Edberg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 23, 1987	QF	Brad Gilbert	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1987	R16	T. Benhabiles	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 20, 1987	R32	Jakob Hlasek	7-6 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1987	R64	Jimmy Arias	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Stefan Edberg's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 24, 1987	F	Boris Becker	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

J. Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 23, 1987	QF	N. Odizor	6-1 6-7 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1987	R16	K. Evernden	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 20, 1987	R32	P. Chamberlin	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1987	R64	Jay Berger	4-6 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data