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Ivan Lendl #5 def. Guillermo Vilas #6

6-3 7-5

Match Information

Date	Aug 3, 1981
Tournament	Indianapolis
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	6-3 7-5
Loser	Guillermo Vilas

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	Guillermo Vilas
Country	USA	ARG
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	Aug 17, 1952
Age	21	28
Height	188	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	5	6
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,156	2,081
Career W-L	1,051–229	898–282
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$4,923,882

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 3 – 3 Guillermo Vilas

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	QF	Jose Luis Damiani	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	R16	Shlomo Glickstein	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	R32	John Benson	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	R64	Rick Fagel	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	F	Jose Luis Clerc	6-4 4-6 2-6	L	H2H	Match data

Guillermo Vilas's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	QF	Ricardo Cano	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	R16	Hans Simonsson	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	R32	Jonathan Smith	6-3 6-2	W	—	Match data
Aug 3, 1981	R64	Craig Wittus	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data