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Bjorn Borg#1 def. Harold Solomon#6

6-2 6-2 6-0

Match Information

Date	Jun 8, 1980*
Tournament	Roland Garros
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Bjorn Borg
Score	6-2 6-2 6-0
Loser	Harold Solomon

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Bjorn Borg	Harold Solomon
Country	SWE	USA
Birth date	Jun 6, 1956	Sep 17, 1952
Age	24	27
Height	180	168
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	6
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,457	2,161
Career W-L	608–143	578–334
Career earnings	$3,655,751	$1,802,769

Pre-match H2H

Bjorn Borg 14 – 0 Harold Solomon

Path

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 1980	QF	Corrado Barazzutti	6-0 6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 4, 1980	R16	Balazs Taroczy	6-2 6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 1, 1980	R32	Pascal Portes	6-3 6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 1980	R64	Andres Gomez	6-2 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 28, 1980	R128	Alvaro Fillol	6-3 6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Bjorn Borg's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 9, 1980	F	Vitas Gerulaitis	6-4 6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Harold Solomon's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 1980	QF	Guillermo Vilas	1-6 6-4 7-6 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 4, 1980	R16	Brian Gottfried	6-0 6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 1, 1980	R32	Van Winitsky	6-7 6-4 7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 1980	R64	Chris Lewis	6-3 6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 28, 1980	R128	Geoff Masters	7-6 6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data