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John McEnroe#2 def. S. Mayer#36

6-7 6-3 6-3

Match Information

Date	Apr 19, 1981*
Tournament	Los Angeles
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	John McEnroe
Score	6-7 6-3 6-3
Loser	S. Mayer

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	John McEnroe	S. Mayer
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Feb 16, 1959	Apr 5, 1952
Age	22	29
Height	180	178
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	2	36
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,288	1,981
Career W-L	833–189	372–206
Career earnings	$12,552,132	$1,057,783

Pre-match H2H

John McEnroe 5 – 0 S. Mayer

Path

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 18, 1981	SF	B. Scanlon	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 18, 1981	QF	Stan Smith	6-2 6-3	W	—	Match data
Apr 17, 1981	R16	John Austin	6-3 6-2	W	—	Match data
Apr 16, 1981	R32	F. Taygan	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

John McEnroe's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

S. Mayer's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 18, 1981	SF	N. Saviano	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 18, 1981	QF	B. Teacher	6-1 1-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 17, 1981	R16	P. Dent	7-6 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 16, 1981	R32	Vincent Van Patten	1-6 6-1 6-1	W	—	Match data