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Manuel Orantes def. Tadeusz Nowicki

6-3 6-1 6-4

Match Information

Date	Apr 14, 1973*
Tournament	Nice
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Manuel Orantes
Score	6-3 6-1 6-4
Loser	Tadeusz Nowicki

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Manuel Orantes	Tadeusz Nowicki
Country	ESP	POL
Birth date	Feb 6, 1949	Jul 7, 1946
Age	24	26
Height	178	—
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	—	—
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	2,013	1,582
Career W-L	696–286	22–29
Career earnings	$1,398,303	—

Pre-match H2H

Manuel Orantes 0 – 0 Tadeusz Nowicki

Path

Manuel Orantes's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 14, 1973	QF	Juan Gisbert	6-3 (ret.)	W	—	Match data
Apr 13, 1973	R16	Martin Mulligan	7-6 6-1	W	—	Match data
Apr 12, 1973	R32	Vincenzo Franchitti	7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Manuel Orantes's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 15, 1973	F	Adriano Panatta	7-6 5-7 4-6 7-6 12-10	W	H2H	Match data

Tadeusz Nowicki's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Apr 14, 1973	QF	Georges Goven	2-6 7-5 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 13, 1973	R16	Peter Szoke	2-6 7-5 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 12, 1973	R32	Bjorn Borg	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Apr 11, 1973	R64	Jean Francois Caujolle	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data