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V. Gerulaitis#5 def. J. Connors#2

(def.)

Match Information

Date	Aug 15, 1982*
Tournament	Montreal / Toronto
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	V. Gerulaitis
Score	(def.)
Loser	J. Connors

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	V. Gerulaitis	J. Connors
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Jul 26, 1954	Sep 2, 1952
Age	28	29
Height	183	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	5	2
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,048	2,272
Career W-L	527–231	1,262–294
Career earnings	$2,778,748	$8,641,040

Pre-match H2H

V. Gerulaitis 6 – 16 J. Connors

Path

V. Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1982	QF	S. Denton	7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 14, 1982	R16	S. Simonsson	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 12, 1982	R32	A. Cortes	6-7 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 11, 1982	R64	R. Acuna	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

V. Gerulaitis's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1982	F	Ivan Lendl	4-6 6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

J. Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1982	QF	L. Bourne	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 14, 1982	R16	Ramesh Krishnan	7-5 6-0	W	—	Match data
Aug 12, 1982	R32	J. Lapidus	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 11, 1982	R64	Pat Cash	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data