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John McEnroe#3 def. Vitas Gerulaitis#6

6-3 6-3

Match Information

Date	Aug 19, 1979*
Tournament	Montreal / Toronto
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	John McEnroe
Score	6-3 6-3
Loser	Vitas Gerulaitis

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	John McEnroe	Vitas Gerulaitis
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Feb 16, 1959	Jul 26, 1954
Age	20	25
Height	180	183
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	6
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,254	2,085
Career W-L	833–189	527–231
Career earnings	$12,552,132	$2,778,748

Pre-match H2H

John McEnroe 1 – 0 Vitas Gerulaitis

Path

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1979	QF	Wojtek Fibak	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	R16	Tomas Smid	6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1979	R32	Jan Kodes	7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1979	R64	Jiri Hrebec	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

John McEnroe's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 20, 1979	F	Bjorn Borg	6-3 6-3	L	H2H	Match data

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1979	QF	Paul Kronk	6-0 6-1	W	—	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	R16	David Schneider	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1979	R32	Van Winitsky	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1979	R64	Mark Cox	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data