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Stan Smith #24 def. Ilie Nastase #23

7-6 7-5

Match Information

Date	Aug 19, 1979*
Tournament	Cleveland
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Stan Smith
Score	7-6 7-5
Loser	Ilie Nastase

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Stan Smith	Ilie Nastase
Country	USA	ROU
Birth date	Dec 14, 1946	Jul 19, 1946
Age	32	33
Height	—	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	24	23
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,902	1,875
Career W-L	—	859–331
Career earnings	$1,774,811	$2,076,761

Pre-match H2H

Stan Smith 5 – 9 Ilie Nastase

Path

Stan Smith's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	QF	Francisco Gonzalez	7-5 6-3	W	—	Match data
Aug 17, 1979	R16	Chris Gunning	7-6 6-2	W	—	Match data
Aug 16, 1979	R32	Ricardo Ycaza	7-5 6-2	W	—	Match data

Stan Smith's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Ilie Nastase's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	SF	Gene Malin	7-6 6-7 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 18, 1979	QF	John Yuill	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 17, 1979	R16	Larry Stefanki	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 16, 1979	R32	Cary Stansbury	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data