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Bjorn Borg #1 def. Vitas Gerulaitis #5

6-2 6-1 6-3

Match Information

Date	Apr 15, 1979*
Tournament	Monte Carlo
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Bjorn Borg
Score	6-2 6-1 6-3
Loser	Vitas Gerulaitis

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Bjorn Borg	Vitas Gerulaitis
Country	SWE	USA
Birth date	Jun 6, 1956	Jul 26, 1954
Age	22	24
Height	180	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	5
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,310	2,165
Career W-L	608–143	527–231
Career earnings	$3,655,751	$2,778,748

Pre-match H2H

Bjorn Borg 7 – 1 Vitas Gerulaitis

Path

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 14, 1979	SF	Victor Pecci	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 14, 1979	QF	Jose Luis Clerc	4-6 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 13, 1979	R16	Jose Higueras	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 12, 1979	R32	Paolo Bertolucci	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Bjorn Borg's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 14, 1979	SF	John Alexander	6-2 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 14, 1979	QF	Raul Ramirez	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 13, 1979	R16	Francois Jauffret	6-7 6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 12, 1979	R32	Jean Francois Caujolle	6-3 5-7 6-4	W	H2H	Match data