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Ivan Lendl#1 def. Emilio Sanchez#20

7-5 4-6 6-1 6-1

Match Information

Date	May 19, 1986*
Tournament	Rome
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	7-5 4-6 6-1 6-1
Loser	Emilio Sanchez

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	Emilio Sanchez
Country	USA	ESP
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	May 29, 1965
Age	26	20
Height	188	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	20
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,378	1,888
Career W-L	1,051–229	402–272
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$5,332,145

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 0 – 0 Emilio Sanchez

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 18, 1986	SF	Yannick Noah	1-6 6-2 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
May 18, 1986	QF	Henri Leconte	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 17, 1986	R16	Paolo Cane	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 1986	R32	Bruce Derlin	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 1986	R64	Francesco Cancellotti	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Emilio Sanchez's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 18, 1986	SF	Mats Wilander	6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
May 18, 1986	QF	Boris Becker	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 17, 1986	R16	Aaron Krickstein	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 15, 1986	R32	Hans Schwaier	3-6 6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 1986	R64	John Lloyd	6-3 6-0	W	—	Match data