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Mel Purcell#30 def. Ilie Nastase#118

7-6 7-6

Match Information

Date	Apr 1, 1983*
Tournament	Monte Carlo
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	R16
Winner	Mel Purcell
Score	7-6 7-6
Loser	Ilie Nastase

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Mel Purcell	Ilie Nastase
Country	USA	ROU
Birth date	Jul 18, 1959	Jul 19, 1946
Age	23	36
Height	178	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	30	118
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	1,764	1,617
Career W-L	190–164	859–331
Career earnings	$796,760	$2,076,761

Pre-match H2H

Mel Purcell 1 – 0 Ilie Nastase

Path

Mel Purcell's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 31, 1983	R32	Jimmy Arias	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Mel Purcell's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 2, 1983	QF	Shlomo Glickstein	6-0 7-6	W	H2H	Match data

Ilie Nastase's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 31, 1983	R32	Cassio Motta	2-6 6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data