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Margaret Court def. Virginia Wade

6-2 6-4

Match Information

Date	Jul 15, 1973*
Tournament	Dublin
Category	WTA 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Margaret Court
Score	6-2 6-4
Loser	Virginia Wade

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Margaret Court	Virginia Wade
Country	AUS	GBR
Birth date	Jul 16, 1942	Jul 10, 1945
Age	30	28
Height	175	170
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	One-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	—	—
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	2,422	2,147
Career W-L	616–64	865–314
Career earnings	—	$1,542,278

Pre-match H2H

Margaret Court 20 – 3 Virginia Wade

Path

Margaret Court's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 14, 1973	SF	Helen Gourlay	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 14, 1973	QF	Geraldine Barniville	6-0 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 13, 1973	R16	Ann Kiyomura Hayashi	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 12, 1973	R32	Jill Minford	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Margaret Court's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Virginia Wade's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jul 14, 1973	SF	Patricia Coleman	6-0 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 14, 1973	QF	Wendy Turnbull	6-3 6-8 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 13, 1973	R16	Helen Doody	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jul 12, 1973	R32	Paula Mullen	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data