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Bjorn Borg #1 def. John McEnroe #3

6-3 6-3

Match Information

Date	Aug 20, 1979*
Tournament	Montreal / Toronto
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Bjorn Borg
Score	6-3 6-3
Loser	John McEnroe

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Bjorn Borg	John McEnroe
Country	SWE	USA
Birth date	Jun 6, 1956	Feb 16, 1959
Age	23	20
Height	180	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	3
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,393	2,263
Career W-L	608–143	833–189
Career earnings	$3,655,751	$12,552,132

Pre-match H2H

Bjorn Borg 2 – 3 John McEnroe

Path

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1979	SF	Ivan Lendl	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1979	QF	Gene Mayer	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	R16	Yannick Noah	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1979	R32	Ivan Molina	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1979	R64	Bruce Manson	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Bjorn Borg's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1979	SF	Vitas Gerulaitis	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1979	QF	Wojtek Fibak	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	R16	Tomas Smid	6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1979	R32	Jan Kodes	7-5 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 15, 1979	R64	Jiri Hrebec	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data