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Ivan Lendl#1 def. John McEnroe#9

6-3 6-3 6-4

Match Information

Date	Sep 12, 1987*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	6-3 6-3 6-4
Loser	John McEnroe

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	John McEnroe
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	Feb 16, 1959
Age	27	28
Height	188	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	9
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,335	2,104
Career W-L	1,051–229	833–189
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$12,552,132

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 11 – 14 John McEnroe

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 1987	R16	Anders Jarryd	6-2 7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 1987	R32	Jim Pugh	6-1 6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 5, 1987	R64	Jean-Philippe Fleurian	6-4 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1987	R128	Barry Moir	6-0 6-0 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 14, 1987	SF	Jimmy Connors	6-4 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 1987	R16	Andres Gomez	6-4 7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 1987	R32	Slobodan Zivojinovic	6-4 5-7 6-7 6-4 6-3	W	—	Match data
Sep 5, 1987	R64	Richey Reneberg	7-6 2-6 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1987	R128	Matt Anger	6-3 6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data