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Bjorn Borg #2 def. Guillermo Vilas #3

6-1 6-1 6-3

Match Information

Date	Jun 12, 1978*
Tournament	Roland Garros
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Bjorn Borg
Score	6-1 6-1 6-3
Loser	Guillermo Vilas

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Bjorn Borg	Guillermo Vilas
Country	SWE	ARG
Birth date	Jun 6, 1956	Aug 17, 1952
Age	22	25
Height	180	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	2	3
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,326	2,307
Career W-L	608–143	898–282
Career earnings	$3,655,751	$4,923,882

Pre-match H2H

Bjorn Borg 12 – 4 Guillermo Vilas

Path

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 11, 1978	SF	Corrado Barazzutti	6-0 6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 9, 1978	QF	Raul Ramirez	6-3 6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 7, 1978	R16	Roscoe Tanner	6-2 6-4 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 4, 1978	R32	Paolo Bertolucci	6-0 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 2, 1978	R64	Rick Fagel	6-0 6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 31, 1978	R128	Eric Deblicker	6-1 6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Bjorn Borg's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Guillermo Vilas's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 11, 1978	SF	Dick Stockton	6-3 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 9, 1978	QF	Hans Gildemeister	6-4 2-6 6-1 3-6 6-3	W	—	Match data
Jun 7, 1978	R16	Arthur Ashe	6-2 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 4, 1978	R32	Yannick Noah	6-2 4-6 6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 2, 1978	R64	Billy Martin	6-2 2-6 3-6 6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 31, 1978	R128	Onny Parun	6-0 6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data