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Ilie Nastase vs John Clifton Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Ilie Nastase seasons:19851984198319821981
John Clifton seasons:19741973197219711970
🇷🇴 Ilie Nastase
🇬🇧 John Clifton
Age: 79y 243d (1946-07-19)
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
(1946-02-19) Age: 80y 28d
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
2 - 0
Wins: 100.0% - 0.0%
Hard 0–0Clay 1–0Grass 1–0
Others 20
WW
LL

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🇷🇴Ilie Nastase and 🇬🇧John Clifton have met 2 times. Ilie Nastase currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 20.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇷🇴Ilie Nastase has compiled an overall career record of 908329 across 1237 matches, translating to a win rate of 73.40%. On hard courts his record stands at 16684 (66.40%), while on clay he holds a 429112 (79.30%) mark. On grass the numbers read 8432 (72.41%) , and on carpet 223101 (68.83%). Throughout his career he has won 64 titles (11 hard, 31 clay, 3 grass, 19 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 4471 (38.26%).

🇬🇧John Clifton, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 1636 from 52 matches (30.77% win rate). His hard-court record is 01 (0.00%), on clay he stands at 413 (23.53%), and on grass he has gone 1119 (36.67%) , with a carpet record of 13 (25.00%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. The clay record between them sits at 10 (100.00% for Ilie Nastase) across 1 matches. On grass, their 1 encounter has yielded a record of 10 (100.00% for Ilie Nastase).

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
1972-06-19EastbourneGrassR32-🇷🇴Ilie Nastase-🇬🇧John Clifton6-1 5-7 6-13------0/0
1971-03-29NiceClayR16-🇷🇴Ilie Nastase-🇬🇧John Clifton6-2 6-33------0/0

Wins

Ilie Nastase
John Clifton
20Overall
20Others
10Clay
10Grass

Sets Format

100.0%2
0.0%0
Bo3
0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo5
100.0%1
0.0%0
2 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Ilie Nastase
John Clifton

Deciding

100.0%1
0.0%0
Decider Set
0.0%0
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Ilie Nastase
John Clifton

Sets

80.0%4
20.0%1
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
66.7%2
33.3%1
Grass
100.0%2
0.0%0
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Ilie Nastase
John Clifton

Games

67.4%29
32.6%14
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
65.4%17
34.6%9
Grass
70.6%12
29.4%5
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Ilie Nastase
John Clifton

Overview

By Surface

Ilie Nastase
John Clifton

By Tournament Level

Ilie Nastase
John Clifton

By Round

Ilie Nastase
John Clifton

By Opponent Ranking

Ilie NastaseJohn Clifton
50%7-7
vs Top 1
36.6%26-45
vs Top 5
38.3%44-71
vs Top 10
47.8%96-105
vs Top 20
63.3%340-197
vs Top 100
0%0-1
79.1%140-37
vs +100
0%0-1
37%71-121
vs Higher
78.4%409-113
vs Lower

Opponent Breakdown

Ilie NastaseJohn Clifton
68.5%529-243
Vs Younger
23.8%5-16
79.1%326-86
Vs Older
4.8%1-20
73.5%746-269
Vs Right-Handed
16.2%6-31
70.6%142-59
Vs Left-Handed
16.7%1-5
51.1%23-22
Vs 2H Backhand
56.5%65-50
Vs 1H Backhand
64.9%279-151
Vs Shorter
63.8%171-97
Vs Taller

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