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Harold Solomon#13 def. John Alexander#29

7-5 7-5

Match Information

Date	Jul 17, 1977*
Tournament	Cincinnati
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Harold Solomon
Score	7-5 7-5
Loser	John Alexander

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Harold Solomon	John Alexander
Country	USA	AUS
Birth date	Sep 17, 1952	Jul 4, 1951
Age	24	26
Height	168	190
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	13	29
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,947	1,875
Career W-L	578–334	579–422
Career earnings	$1,802,769	$1,214,079

Pre-match H2H

Harold Solomon 4 – 4 John Alexander

Path

Harold Solomon's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 17, 1977	QF	John James	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 16, 1977	R16	Hank Pfister	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 14, 1977	R32	Jorge Andrew	6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 13, 1977	R64	Francisco Gonzalez	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Harold Solomon's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 18, 1977	F	Mark Cox	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

John Alexander's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 17, 1977	QF	Terry Moor	4-6 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 16, 1977	R16	Keith Richardson	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 14, 1977	R32	Tony Giammalva	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 13, 1977	R64	Zan Guerry	6-3 3-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data