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John McEnroe #5 def. John Alexander #23

6-4 6-3

Match Information

Date	Apr 1, 1979*
Tournament	Milan
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Carpet
Round	F
Winner	John McEnroe
Score	6-4 6-3
Loser	John Alexander

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	John McEnroe	John Alexander
Country	USA	AUS
Birth date	Feb 16, 1959	Jul 4, 1951
Age	20	27
Height	180	190
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	5	23
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,193	1,861
Career W-L	833–189	579–422
Career earnings	$12,552,132	$1,214,079

Pre-match H2H

John McEnroe 0 – 1 John Alexander

Path

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 31, 1979	SF	Vitas Gerulaitis	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 31, 1979	QF	Andrew Pattison	6-1 6-3	W	—	Match data
Mar 30, 1979	R16	Buster C Mottram	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 29, 1979	R32	Andrew Jarrett	4-6 6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

John McEnroe's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

John Alexander's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 31, 1979	SF	Adriano Panatta	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 31, 1979	QF	Bjorn Borg	6-3 3-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 30, 1979	R16	Gianni Ocleppo	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 29, 1979	R32	Corrado Barazzutti	6-3 3-6 7-5	W	H2H	Match data