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Ivan Lendl#1 def. John Fitzgerald#32

6-2 6-1 6-1

Match Information

Date	Sep 1, 1989*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R64
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	6-2 6-1 6-1
Loser	John Fitzgerald

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	John Fitzgerald
Country	USA	AUS
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	Dec 28, 1960
Age	29	28
Height	188	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	32
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,254	1,741
Career W-L	1,051–229	230–221
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$3,207,272

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 2 – 1 John Fitzgerald

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 30, 1989	R128	Diego Perez	6-1 7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1989	R32	Jim Courier	6-1 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

John Fitzgerald's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 30, 1989	R128	Mark Kratzmann	7-6 5-7 7-6 5-7 6-4	W	H2H	Match data