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Guillermo Vilas#4 def. Gene Mayer#27

6-3 3-0 (ret.)

Match Information

Date	May 27, 1979*
Tournament	Rome
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Guillermo Vilas
Score	6-3 3-0 (ret.)
Loser	Gene Mayer

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Guillermo Vilas	Gene Mayer
Country	ARG	USA
Birth date	Aug 17, 1952	Apr 11, 1956
Age	26	23
Height	180	183
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	4	27
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,104	1,937
Career W-L	898–282	311–159
Career earnings	$4,923,882	$1,382,422

Pre-match H2H

Guillermo Vilas 3 – 0 Gene Mayer

Path

Guillermo Vilas's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 27, 1979	QF	Adriano Panatta	6-1 6-7 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
May 26, 1979	R16	Paolo Bertolucci	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 24, 1979	R32	Phil Dent	6-2 4-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 23, 1979	R64	Carlos Gattiker	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Guillermo Vilas's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 28, 1979	F	Vitas Gerulaitis	6-7 7-6 6-7 6-4 6-2	L	H2H	Match data

Gene Mayer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 27, 1979	QF	Terry Moor	7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 26, 1979	R16	Ivan Lendl	7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 24, 1979	R32	Tim Gullikson	6-4 6-2	W	—	Match data
May 23, 1979	R64	Francisco Gonzalez	7-5 6-0	W	H2H	Match data