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Ivan Lendl#4 def. Jimmy Connors#2

6-1 6-1

Match Information

Date	Aug 22, 1982*
Tournament	Cincinnati
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	6-1 6-1
Loser	Jimmy Connors

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	Jimmy Connors
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	Sep 2, 1952
Age	22	29
Height	188	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	4	2
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,310	2,258
Career W-L	1,051–229	1,262–294
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$8,641,040

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 0 – 7 Jimmy Connors

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1982	QF	Gene Mayer	(w/o)	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 21, 1982	R16	Gilles Moretton	6-4 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1982	R32	Ramesh Krishnan	6-4 6-2	W	—	Match data
Aug 18, 1982	R64	Dick Stockton	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 23, 1982	F	Steve Denton	6-2 7-6	W	H2H	Match data

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 22, 1982	QF	Brian Gottfried	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 21, 1982	R16	Brian Teacher	6-1 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 19, 1982	R32	Phil Dent	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1982	R64	Matt Doyle	6-7 6-1 6-0	W	—	Match data