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Jimmy Connors #3 def. Brian Gottfried #14

6-2 6-4 6-3

Match Information

Date	Mar 15, 1981*
Tournament	Brussels
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Carpet
Round	F
Winner	Jimmy Connors
Score	6-2 6-4 6-3
Loser	Brian Gottfried

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jimmy Connors	Brian Gottfried
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Sep 2, 1952	Jan 27, 1952
Age	28	29
Height	177	183
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	14
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,228	1,973
Career W-L	1,262–294	695–322
Career earnings	$8,641,040	$2,782,514

Pre-match H2H

Jimmy Connors 11 – 2 Brian Gottfried

Path

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 1981	SF	Sandy Mayer	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 1981	QF	Fritz Buehning	6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 1981	R16	Pat Dupre	4-6 6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 1981	R32	Andres Gomez	6-0 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Jimmy Connors's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Brian Gottfried's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 1981	SF	Rolf Gehring	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 14, 1981	QF	Peter Rennert	7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 1981	R16	Pavel Slozil	6-1 3-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 12, 1981	R32	Bill Scanlon	4-6 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data