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Victor Pecci #29 def. Jimmy Connors #1

7-5 6-4 5-7 6-3

Match Information

Date	Jun 10, 1979*
Tournament	Roland Garros
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Victor Pecci
Score	7-5 6-4 5-7 6-3
Loser	Jimmy Connors

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Victor Pecci	Jimmy Connors
Country	PAR	USA
Birth date	Oct 15, 1955	Sep 2, 1952
Age	23	26
Height	193	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	29	1
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,965	2,349
Career W-L	354–244	1,262–294
Career earnings	$994,678	$8,641,040

Pre-match H2H

Victor Pecci 0 – 2 Jimmy Connors

Path

Victor Pecci's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 8, 1979	QF	Guillermo Vilas	6-0 6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 1979	R16	Harold Solomon	6-1 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 3, 1979	R32	Corrado Barazzutti	7-5 6-3 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 1, 1979	R64	Pavel Slozil	6-3 2-6 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 1979	R128	Francois Jauffret	6-7 6-4 7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Victor Pecci's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 11, 1979	F	Bjorn Borg	3-6 1-6 7-6 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 8, 1979	QF	Eddie Dibbs	6-2 2-6 6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 1979	R16	Manuel Orantes	4-6 6-1 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 3, 1979	R32	Ross Case	7-6 6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 1, 1979	R64	Ramesh Krishnan	6-1 6-1 6-4	W	—	Match data
May 30, 1979	R128	Terry Moor	6-1 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data