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John McEnroe #2 def. Vitas Gerulaitis #9

6-3 7-5

Match Information

Date	May 7, 1983*
Tournament	Forest Hills Wct
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	John McEnroe
Score	6-3 7-5
Loser	Vitas Gerulaitis

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	John McEnroe	Vitas Gerulaitis
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Feb 16, 1959	Jul 26, 1954
Age	24	28
Height	180	183
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	2	9
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,311	2,050
Career W-L	833–189	527–231
Career earnings	$12,552,132	$2,778,748

Pre-match H2H

John McEnroe 7 – 3 Vitas Gerulaitis

Path

John McEnroe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 6, 1983	SF	Guillermo Vilas	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 6, 1983	QF	Tomas Smid	6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
May 5, 1983	R16	Jan Gunnarsson	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 4, 1983	R32	Jairo Velasco	(w/o)	W	—	Match data

John McEnroe's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 6, 1983	SF	Johan Kriek	6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
May 6, 1983	QF	Brad Gilbert	7-5 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
May 5, 1983	R16	Eddie Dibbs	7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 4, 1983	R32	Craig Wittus	6-2 7-8	W	H2H	Match data