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Ilie Nastase vs Nicola Spear Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Ilie Nastase seasons:19851984198319821981
Nicola Spear seasons:19801979197819771976
🇷🇴 Ilie Nastase
🇷🇸 Nicola Spear
Age: 79y 334d (1946-07-19)
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
(1944-02-22) Age: 82y 116d
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
2 - 2
Wins: 50.0% - 50.0%
Hard 0–0Clay 1–2Grass 1–0
Others 1–1Davis Cup 0–1Slam 1–0
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🇷🇴Ilie Nastase and 🇷🇸Nicola Spear have met 4 times. The series is tied 2–2.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇷🇴Ilie Nastase has compiled an overall career record of 908–329 across 1237 matches, translating to a win rate of 73.40%. On hard courts his record stands at 166–84 (66.40%), while on clay he holds a 429–112 (79.30%) mark. On grass the numbers read 84–32 (72.41%) , and on carpet 223–101 (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 44–71 (38.26%).

🇷🇸Nicola Spear, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 116–172 from 288 matches (40.28% win rate). His hard-court record is 21–21 (50.00%), on clay he stands at 80–115 (41.03%), and on grass he has gone 8–19 (29.63%) , with a carpet record of 5–11 (31.25%). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 0–12 (0.00%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. The clay record between them sits at 2–1 (66.67% for Nicola Spear) across 3 matches. On grass, their 1 encounter has yielded a record of 1–0 (100.00% for Ilie Nastase).

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
1976-06-21WimbledonGrassR1287🇷🇴Ilie Nastase (3)146🇷🇸Nicola Spear6-2 6-3 6-25------0/0
1972-03-27Monte-CarloClayR32-🇷🇴Ilie Nastase-🇷🇸Nicola Spear6-4 6-13------0/0
1970-06-12Davis Cup EUR SF: YUG vs ROUClayRR-🇷🇸Nicola Spear-🇷🇴Ilie Nastase7-5 8-6 6-25------0/0
1969-03-17St. PetersburgClayR16-🇷🇸Nicola Spear-🇷🇴Ilie Nastase6-4 3-6 6-33------0/0

Wins

Ilie Nastase
Nicola Spear
2–2Overall
1–0Grand Slam
1–1Others
0–1Davis Cup
1–2Clay
1–0Grass

Sets Format

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

Deciding

0.0%0
100.0%1
Decider Set
0.0%0
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Ilie Nastase
Nicola Spear

Sets

54.5%6
45.5%5
All
100.0%3
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
100.0%3
0.0%0
Grass
37.5%3
62.5%5
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Ilie Nastase
Nicola Spear

Games

53.8%56
46.2%48
All
72.0%18
28.0%7
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
72.0%18
28.0%7
Grass
48.1%38
51.9%41
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Ilie Nastase
Nicola Spear

Overview

By Surface

Ilie Nastase
Nicola Spear

By Tournament Level

Ilie Nastase
Nicola Spear

By Round

Ilie Nastase
Nicola Spear

By Opponent Ranking

Ilie NastaseNicola Spear
50%7-7
vs Top 1
0%0-2
36.6%26-45
vs Top 5
0%0-8
38.3%44-71
vs Top 10
0%0-12
47.8%96-105
vs Top 20
4.5%1-21
63.3%340-197
vs Top 100
23.6%17-55
79.1%140-37
vs +100
46.6%27-31
37%71-121
vs Higher
27.8%25-65
78.4%409-113
vs Lower
47.5%19-21

Opponent Breakdown

Ilie NastaseNicola Spear
68.5%528-243
Vs Younger
35.4%70-128
79.1%326-86
Vs Older
41.7%25-35
73.5%746-269
Vs Right-Handed
38.7%91-144
70.6%142-59
Vs Left-Handed
30%12-28
51.1%23-22
Vs 2H Backhand
0%0-4
56.5%65-50
Vs 1H Backhand
0%0-18
64.9%279-151
Vs Shorter
—
63.8%171-97
Vs Taller
—

Pressure Situations