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Manuel Orantes #8 def. Jimmy Connors #1

6-4 6-3 6-3

Match Information

Date	Sep 10, 1975*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Manuel Orantes
Score	6-4 6-3 6-3
Loser	Jimmy Connors

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Manuel Orantes	Jimmy Connors
Country	ESP	USA
Birth date	Feb 6, 1949	Sep 2, 1952
Age	26	23
Height	178	177
Handedness	Left-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	8	1
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,198	2,287
Career W-L	696–286	1,262–294
Career earnings	$1,398,303	$8,641,040

Pre-match H2H

Manuel Orantes 1 – 6 Jimmy Connors

Path

Manuel Orantes's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 9, 1975	SF	Guillermo Vilas	4-6 1-6 6-2 7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 1975	QF	Ilie Nastase	6-2 6-4 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 5, 1975	R16	Francois Jauffret	6-4 3-6 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 1975	R32	Hans Jurgen Pohmann	6-2 3-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 1975	R64	Sashi Menon	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 29, 1975	R128	Bernie Mitton	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Manuel Orantes's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 9, 1975	SF	Bjorn Borg	7-5 7-5 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 1975	QF	Andrew Pattison	6-2 6-1 6-2	W	—	Match data
Sep 5, 1975	R16	Harold Solomon	6-2 5-7 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 1975	R32	Georges Goven	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 1975	R64	Roger Taylor	6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 29, 1975	R128	Geoff Masters	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data