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B. Taroczy#26 def. Ivan Lendl#36

6-1 1-6 6-3

Match Information

Date	Jun 17, 1979*
Tournament	Brussels
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	B. Taroczy
Score	6-1 1-6 6-3
Loser	Ivan Lendl

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	B. Taroczy	Ivan Lendl
Country	HUN	USA
Birth date	May 9, 1954	Mar 7, 1960
Age	25	19
Height	183	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	26	36
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,849	1,786
Career W-L	381–228	1,051–229
Career earnings	$1,437,443	$21,262,417

Pre-match H2H

B. Taroczy 2 – 0 Ivan Lendl

Path

B. Taroczy's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 16, 1979	SF	B. Boileau	6-1 5-7 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 16, 1979	QF	A. Maurer	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 15, 1979	R16	B. Martin	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 14, 1979	R32	D. Joubert	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

B. Taroczy's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 16, 1979	SF	T. Smid	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 16, 1979	QF	U. Pinner	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 15, 1979	R16	P. Hombergen	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 14, 1979	R32	C. Kirmayr	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data