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Bjorn Borg#1 def. Vitas Gerulaitis#5

6-4 6-1 6-2

Match Information

Date	Jun 9, 1980*
Tournament	Roland Garros
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Bjorn Borg
Score	6-4 6-1 6-2
Loser	Vitas Gerulaitis

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Bjorn Borg	Vitas Gerulaitis
Country	SWE	USA
Birth date	Jun 6, 1956	Jul 26, 1954
Age	24	25
Height	180	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	5
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,464	2,200
Career W-L	608–143	527–231
Career earnings	$3,655,751	$2,778,748

Pre-match H2H

Bjorn Borg 14 – 1 Vitas Gerulaitis

Path

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 8, 1980	SF	Harold Solomon	6-2 6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 1980	QF	Corrado Barazzutti	6-0 6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 4, 1980	R16	Balazs Taroczy	6-2 6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 1, 1980	R32	Pascal Portes	6-3 6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 1980	R64	Andres Gomez	6-2 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 28, 1980	R128	Alvaro Fillol	6-3 6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Bjorn Borg'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
Jun 8, 1980	SF	Jimmy Connors	6-1 3-6 6-7 6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 1980	QF	Wojtek Fibak	6-3 5-7 6-4 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 4, 1980	R16	Ferdi Taygan	6-3 7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 1, 1980	R32	Stanislav Birner	6-1 4-6 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 1980	R64	Fritz Buehning	6-1 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 28, 1980	R128	Peter Elter	1-6 6-1 5-7 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data