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John McEnroe #2 def. Vitas Gerulaitis #8

6-3 6-4

Match Information

Date	Oct 19, 1980*
Tournament	Sydney Indoor
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	John McEnroe
Score	6-3 6-4
Loser	Vitas Gerulaitis

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	John McEnroe	Vitas Gerulaitis
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Feb 16, 1959	Jul 26, 1954
Age	21	26
Height	180	183
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	2	8
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,267	2,118
Career W-L	833–189	527–231
Career earnings	$12,552,132	$2,778,748

Pre-match H2H

John McEnroe 3 – 3 Vitas Gerulaitis

Path

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 18, 1980	SF	Johan Kriek	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 18, 1980	QF	Tim Gullikson	6-2 6-4	W	—	Match data
Oct 17, 1980	R16	Rod Frawley	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 16, 1980	R32	Sandy Mayer	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

John McEnroe's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 18, 1980	SF	Gene Mayer	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 18, 1980	QF	Bill Scanlon	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 17, 1980	R16	Ferdi Taygan	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 16, 1980	R32	Paul Mcnamee	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data