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Ivan Lendl #1 def. Kent Carlsson #11

6-3 6-3

Match Information

Date	May 15, 1988*
Tournament	Rome
Category	Masters 1000
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Ivan Lendl
Score	6-3 6-3
Loser	Kent Carlsson

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ivan Lendl	Kent Carlsson
Country	USA	SWE
Birth date	Mar 7, 1960	Jan 3, 1968
Age	28	20
Height	188	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	11
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,312	2,034
Career W-L	1,051–229	155–57
Career earnings	$21,262,417	$998,956

Pre-match H2H

Ivan Lendl 1 – 0 Kent Carlsson

Path

Ivan Lendl's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 15, 1988	QF	Jaime Yzaga	6-2 4-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 1988	R16	Guy Forget	6-3 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 12, 1988	R32	Milan Srejber	6-1 5-7 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 11, 1988	R64	Jaroslav Navratil	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Ivan Lendl's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 16, 1988	F	Guillermo Perez-Roldan	2-6 6-4 6-2 4-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Kent Carlsson's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
May 15, 1988	QF	Yannick Noah	4-6 6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 14, 1988	R16	Ricki Osterthun	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 12, 1988	R32	Guillermo Vilas	7-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 11, 1988	R64	Paul Vojtischek	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data