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Roscoe Tanner#18 def. Mel Purcell#39

7-5 6-3

Match Information

Date	Sep 25, 1980*
Tournament	San Francisco
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Carpet
Round	R32
Winner	Roscoe Tanner
Score	7-5 6-3
Loser	Mel Purcell

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roscoe Tanner	Mel Purcell
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Oct 15, 1951	Jul 18, 1959
Age	28	21
Height	183	178
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	18	39
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,030	1,739
Career W-L	595–298	190–164
Career earnings	$1,696,198	$796,760

Pre-match H2H

Roscoe Tanner 0 – 0 Mel Purcell

Path

Roscoe Tanner's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 24, 1980	R64	Butch Walts	7-6 7-6	W	H2H	Match data

Roscoe Tanner's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 26, 1980	R16	Bob Lutz	2-6 6-4 7-6	L	—	Match data

Mel Purcell's path

No prior matches in this tournament.