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Jimmy Connors #4 def. Eliot Teltscher #8

6-3 6-1 6-2

Match Information

Date	Sep 12, 1981*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Jimmy Connors
Score	6-3 6-1 6-2
Loser	Eliot Teltscher

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Jimmy Connors	Eliot Teltscher
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Sep 2, 1952	Mar 15, 1959
Age	29	22
Height	177	178
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	4	8
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,166	2,035
Career W-L	1,262–294	392–207
Career earnings	$8,641,040	$1,653,997

Pre-match H2H

Jimmy Connors 6 – 0 Eliot Teltscher

Path

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 1981	R16	Mike Cahill	6-3 6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 1981	R32	Andres Gomez	6-7 6-3 6-1 4-6 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 5, 1981	R64	Marko Ostoja	7-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 3, 1981	R128	John Lloyd	6-0 6-0 6-2	W	—	Match data

Jimmy Connors's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 14, 1981	SF	Bjorn Borg	2-6 5-7 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Eliot Teltscher's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 1981	R16	Brian Gottfried	6-4 6-0 5-7 1-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 7, 1981	R32	Vijay Amritraj	6-2 6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 5, 1981	R64	John Austin	6-2 6-2 6-2	W	—	Match data
Sep 3, 1981	R128	Victor Amaya	6-2 6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data