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Roscoe Tanner #13 def. Arthur Ashe #4

6-3 3-6 6-4

Match Information

Date	Mar 27, 1976*
Tournament	Palm Springs
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Roscoe Tanner
Score	6-3 3-6 6-4
Loser	Arthur Ashe

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Roscoe Tanner	Arthur Ashe
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Oct 15, 1951	Jul 10, 1943
Age	24	32
Height	183	185
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	13	4
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,995	2,255
Career W-L	595–298	800–258
Career earnings	$1,696,198	$1,584,909

Pre-match H2H

Roscoe Tanner 2 – 8 Arthur Ashe

Path

Roscoe Tanner's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 27, 1976	QF	Ilie Nastase	6-3 3-1 DEF	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 26, 1976	R16	Brian Fairlie	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 25, 1976	R32	Onny Parun	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 24, 1976	R64	Geoff Masters	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Roscoe Tanner's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 28, 1976	F	Jimmy Connors	4-6 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Arthur Ashe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 27, 1976	QF	John Newcombe	7-6 4-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 26, 1976	R16	Cliff Richey	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 25, 1976	R32	Sherwood Stewart	6-4 6-2	W	—	Match data
Mar 24, 1976	R64	John Andrews	6-2 2-6 6-2	W	—	Match data