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Manuel Orantes #3 def. Bjorn Borg #31

6-3 6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Oct 13, 1973*
Tournament	Barcelona
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	SF
Winner	Manuel Orantes
Score	6-3 6-2 6-3
Loser	Bjorn Borg

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Manuel Orantes	Bjorn Borg
Country	ESP	SWE
Birth date	Feb 6, 1949	Jun 6, 1956
Age	24	17
Height	178	180
Handedness	Left-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	3	31
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	2,004	1,853
Career W-L	696–286	608–143
Career earnings	$1,398,303	$3,655,751

Pre-match H2H

Manuel Orantes 1 – 0 Bjorn Borg

Path

Manuel Orantes's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 13, 1973	QF	Buster C Mottram	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 12, 1973	R16	Julian Ganzabal	2-6 6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 11, 1973	R32	Alberto Martorell	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Manuel Orantes's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 14, 1973	F	Ilie Nastase	6-2 1-6 6-8 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Bjorn Borg's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 13, 1973	QF	Andrew Pattison	11-9 6-1	W	—	Match data
Oct 12, 1973	R16	Jaime Fillol	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 11, 1973	R32	Patricio Rodriguez Chi	6-2 6-2	W	—	Match data
Oct 10, 1973	R64	Bob Carmichael	6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data