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Jose Luis Clerc #16 def. Mel Purcell #245

7-5 6-3

Match Information

Date	Aug 4, 1980
Tournament	Indianapolis
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Jose Luis Clerc
Score	7-5 6-3
Loser	Mel Purcell

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jose Luis Clerc	Mel Purcell
Country	ARG	USA
Birth date	Aug 16, 1958	Jul 18, 1959
Age	21	21
Height	185	178
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	16	245
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,028	1,671
Career W-L	361–141	190–164
Career earnings	$1,987,036	$796,760

Pre-match H2H

Jose Luis Clerc 1 – 0 Mel Purcell

Path

Jose Luis Clerc's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	SF	Jose Higueras	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	QF	Terry Moor	6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	R16	Kim Warwick	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	R32	Ricardo Ycaza	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	R64	Stefan Simonsson	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Jose Luis Clerc's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Mel Purcell's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	SF	Mario Martinez	6-1 6-3	W	—	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	QF	Wojtek Fibak	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	R16	Harold Solomon	4-6 6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	R32	Hank Pfister	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 4, 1980	R64	Pascal Portes	6-0 3-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data