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Vitas Gerulaitis#5 def. Jimmy Connors#2

(def.)

Match Information

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

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Vitas Gerulaitis	Jimmy 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

Vitas Gerulaitis 6 – 16 Jimmy Connors

Path

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1982	QF	Steve Denton	7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 14, 1982	R16	Stefan Simonsson	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 12, 1982	R32	Alejandro Cortes	6-7 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 11, 1982	R64	Ricardo Acuna	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Vitas 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

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1982	QF	Lloyd 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	Jay Lapidus	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 11, 1982	R64	Pat Cash	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data