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Ilie Nastase#9 def. Manuel Orantes#13

8-6 9-7 6-3

Match Information

Date	Oct 20, 1974*
Tournament	Barcelona
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Ilie Nastase
Score	8-6 9-7 6-3
Loser	Manuel Orantes

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ilie Nastase	Manuel Orantes
Country	ROU	ESP
Birth date	Jul 19, 1946	Feb 6, 1949
Age	28	25
Height	183	178
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	9	13
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	2,113	1,976
Career W-L	859–331	696–286
Career earnings	$2,076,761	$1,398,303

Pre-match H2H

Ilie Nastase 8 – 3 Manuel Orantes

Path

Ilie Nastase's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 19, 1974	SF	Francois Jauffret	6-3 6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 19, 1974	QF	Harold Solomon	6-1 0-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 18, 1974	R16	Ulrich Pinner	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 17, 1974	R32	Roger Taylor	6-1 9-11 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 16, 1974	R64	Haroon Rahim	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Ilie Nastase's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Manuel Orantes's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 19, 1974	SF	Bjorn Borg	6-1 7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 19, 1974	QF	Jaime Fillol	6-1 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 18, 1974	R16	Vitas Gerulaitis	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 17, 1974	R32	Jose Moreno	6-1 6-1	W	—	Match data
Oct 16, 1974	R64	Frank Gebert	6-1 7-5	W	H2H	Match data