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Jimmy Connors#1 def. Eddie Dibbs#5

7-5 7-5

Match Information

Date	Jul 29, 1978*
Tournament	Washington
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Jimmy Connors
Score	7-5 7-5
Loser	Eddie Dibbs

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jimmy Connors	Eddie Dibbs
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Sep 2, 1952	Feb 23, 1951
Age	25	27
Height	177	170
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	5
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,334	2,113
Career W-L	1,262–294	607–264
Career earnings	$8,641,040	$2,016,426

Pre-match H2H

Jimmy Connors 9 – 1 Eddie Dibbs

Path

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 28, 1978	SF	Jose Higueras	7-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 28, 1978	QF	Hans Gildemeister	7-5 6-4	W	—	Match data
Jul 27, 1978	R16	John Alexander	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 26, 1978	R32	Terry Rocavert	7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 25, 1978	R64	John Marks	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Jimmy Connors's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Eddie Dibbs's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 28, 1978	SF	Manuel Orantes	7-5 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 28, 1978	QF	Wojtek Fibak	6-1 4-6 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 27, 1978	R16	Ken Rosewall	7-5 0-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 26, 1978	R32	Ramiro Benavides	6-0 2-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 25, 1978	R64	John Sadri	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data