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Ivan Lendl#1 def. Jimmy Connors#4

6-2 6-0

Match Information

Date	Mar 23, 1986*
Tournament	Fort Myers
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	6-2 6-0
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	26	33
Height	188	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	4
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,415	2,126
Career W-L	1,051–229	1,262–294
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$8,641,040

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 13 – 12 Jimmy Connors

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 22, 1986	SF	Andres Gomez	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 22, 1986	QF	David Pate	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 21, 1986	R16	Eliot Teltscher	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 20, 1986	R32	John Sadri	6-4 7-5	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Jimmy Connors's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 22, 1986	SF	Tim Mayotte	7-5 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 22, 1986	QF	Todd Witsken	6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 21, 1986	R16	John Lloyd	7-5 6-2	W	—	Match data
Mar 20, 1986	R32	Mike Leach	3-6 6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data