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Balazs Taroczy#18 def. Ivan Lendl#90

6-4 1-6 6-1

Match Information

Date	Nov 3, 1978*
Tournament	Cologne
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	R16
Winner	Balazs Taroczy
Score	6-4 1-6 6-1
Loser	Ivan Lendl

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Balazs Taroczy	Ivan Lendl
Country	HUN	USA
Birth date	May 9, 1954	Mar 7, 1960
Age	24	18
Height	183	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	18	90
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,977	1,634
Career W-L	381–228	1,051–229
Career earnings	$1,437,443	$21,262,417

Pre-match H2H

Balazs Taroczy 1 – 0 Ivan Lendl

Path

Balazs Taroczy's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Nov 2, 1978	R32	Jiri Hrebec	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Balazs Taroczy's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Nov 4, 1978	QF	Vijay Amritraj	6-4 6-4	L	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Nov 2, 1978	R32	Vladimir Zednik	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data