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Ilie Nastase #17 def. Paolo Bertolucci #54

6-3 3-6 9-7

Match Information

Date	Oct 14, 1978*
Tournament	Barcelona
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Ilie Nastase
Score	6-3 3-6 9-7
Loser	Paolo Bertolucci

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ilie Nastase	Paolo Bertolucci
Country	ROU	ITA
Birth date	Jul 19, 1946	Aug 3, 1951
Age	32	27
Height	183	175
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	17	54
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,025	1,831
Career W-L	859–331	198–150
Career earnings	$2,076,761	—

Pre-match H2H

Ilie Nastase 4 – 0 Paolo Bertolucci

Path

Ilie Nastase's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 14, 1978	QF	Jose Higueras	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 13, 1978	R16	Ramiro Benavides	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 12, 1978	R32	Fernando Luna	6-2 3-6 10-8	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 11, 1978	R64	Frew Mcmillan	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Ilie Nastase's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 15, 1978	F	Balazs Taroczy	6-1 5-7 6-4 3-6 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Paolo Bertolucci's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 14, 1978	QF	Tomas Smid	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 13, 1978	R16	Pavel Hutka	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 12, 1978	R32	Vladimir Zednik	6-3 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 11, 1978	R64	Jean Louis Haillet	7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data