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Ivan Lendl#3 def. Jimmy Connors#2

6-3 6-2

Match Information

Date	Mar 31, 1985*
Tournament	Fort Myers
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	6-3 6-2
Loser	Jimmy Connors

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	Jimmy Connors
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	Sep 2, 1952
Age	25	32
Height	188	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	2
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,224	2,191
Career W-L	1,051–229	1,262–294
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$8,641,040

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 7 – 12 Jimmy Connors

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 30, 1985	SF	Sammy Giammalva Jr	6-2 6-1	W	—	Match data
Mar 30, 1985	QF	Brad Gilbert	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 29, 1985	R16	Greg Holmes	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 28, 1985	R32	John Lloyd	6-3 6-3	W	—	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 30, 1985	SF	Andres Gomez	3-6 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 30, 1985	QF	Johan Kriek	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 29, 1985	R16	Dan Cassidy	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 28, 1985	R32	Peter Doohan	5-7 6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data