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Adriano Panatta#96 def. Mel Purcell#26

6-2 6-4

Match Information

Date	Oct 29, 1982*
Tournament	Paris Indoor
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	R16
Winner	Adriano Panatta
Score	6-2 6-4
Loser	Mel Purcell

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Adriano Panatta	Mel Purcell
Country	ITA	USA
Birth date	Jul 9, 1950	Jul 18, 1959
Age	32	23
Height	183	178
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	96	26
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,697	1,882
Career W-L	379–226	190–164
Career earnings	$776,187	$796,760

Pre-match H2H

Adriano Panatta 0 – 0 Mel Purcell

Path

Adriano Panatta's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 28, 1982	R32	Joao Soares	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Adriano Panatta's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 30, 1982	QF	Bill Scanlon	6-0 6-3	L	H2H	Match data

Mel Purcell's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 28, 1982	R32	Mansour Bahrami	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data