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Ilie Nastase vs Jose Higueras Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Ilie Nastase seasons:19851984198319821981
Jose Higueras seasons:19861985198419831982
🇷🇴 Ilie Nastase
🇪🇸 Jose Higueras
Age: 79y 244d (1946-07-19)
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
(1953-03-01) Age: 73y 19d
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
6 - 1
Wins: 85.7% - 14.3%
Hard 0–0Clay 4–1Grass 0–0
Others 50Davis Cup 10Slam 01
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🇷🇴Ilie Nastase and 🇪🇸Jose Higueras have met 7 times. Ilie Nastase currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 61.

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%).

🇪🇸Jose Higueras, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 453243 from 696 matches (65.09% win rate). His hard-court record is 2522 (53.19%), on clay he stands at 392183 (68.17%), and on grass he has gone 44 (50.00%) , with a carpet record of 3234 (48.48%). He has accumulated 16 titles in total (1 hard, 15 clay). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 2669 (27.37%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. The clay record between them sits at 41 (80.00% for Ilie Nastase) across 5 matches.

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
1984-05-28Roland GarrosClayR12815🇪🇸Jose Higueras (12)141🇷🇴Ilie Nastase6-3 6-0 6-35------0/0
1979-01-29Richmond WCTCarpetR1615🇷🇴Ilie Nastase (6)17🇪🇸Jose Higueras6-4 2-6 6-23------0/0
1978-10-09BarcelonaClayQF17🇷🇴Ilie Nastase (3)15🇪🇸Jose Higueras (5)6-2 6-23------0/0
1975-10-13Barcelona-3ClayR166🇷🇴Ilie Nastase (3)51🇪🇸Jose Higueras (14)7-6 4-6 8-63------0/0
1975-07-18Davis Cup EUR SF: ESP vs ROUClayRR9🇷🇴Ilie Nastase48🇪🇸Jose Higueras6-0 8-6 4-6 6-15------0/0
1974-03-04HamptonCarpetR161🇷🇴Ilie Nastase79🇪🇸Jose Higueras6-0 6-23------0/0
1973-10-08Barcelona-2ClayQF10🇷🇴Ilie Nastase (1)107🇪🇸Jose Higueras6-3 6-33------0/0

Wins

Ilie Nastase
Jose Higueras
61Overall
01Grand Slam
50Others
10Davis Cup
41Clay
20Indoor Hard

Sets Format

100.0%5
0.0%0
Bo3
50.0%1
50.0%1
Bo5
100.0%3
0.0%0
2 Sets
66.7%2
33.3%1
3 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Ilie Nastase
Jose Higueras

Deciding

100.0%2
0.0%0
Decider Set
100.0%1
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Ilie Nastase
Jose Higueras

Sets

68.4%13
31.6%6
All
0.0%0
100.0%3
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
64.3%9
35.7%5
Clay
80.0%4
20.0%1
Carpet
Ilie Nastase
Jose Higueras

Games

57.6%99
42.4%73
All
25.0%6
75.0%18
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
55.3%73
44.7%59
Clay
65.0%26
35.0%14
Carpet
Ilie Nastase
Jose Higueras

Overview

By Surface

Ilie Nastase
Jose Higueras

By Tournament Level

Ilie Nastase
Jose Higueras

By Round

Ilie Nastase
Jose Higueras

By Opponent Ranking

Ilie NastaseJose Higueras
50%7-7
vs Top 1
0%0-9
36.6%26-45
vs Top 5
16.3%8-41
38.3%44-71
vs Top 10
27.4%26-69
47.8%96-105
vs Top 20
32.5%49-102
63.3%340-197
vs Top 100
56.5%257-198
79.1%140-37
vs +100
83.4%181-36
37%71-121
vs Higher
37.3%63-106
78.4%409-113
vs Lower
74.6%375-128

Opponent Breakdown

Ilie NastaseJose Higueras
68.5%529-243
Vs Younger
65.4%242-128
79.1%326-86
Vs Older
63.6%194-111
73.5%746-269
Vs Right-Handed
66.6%392-197
70.6%142-59
Vs Left-Handed
56.7%59-45
51.1%23-22
Vs 2H Backhand
26.1%6-17
56.5%65-50
Vs 1H Backhand
37.7%20-33
64.9%279-151
Vs Shorter
69.5%66-29
63.8%171-97
Vs Taller
57.3%204-152

Pressure Situations