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Ilie Nastase #6 def. Roscoe Tanner #11

6-4 6-2

Match Information

Date	Aug 29, 1976*
Tournament	South Orange
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Ilie Nastase
Score	6-4 6-2
Loser	Roscoe Tanner

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ilie Nastase	Roscoe Tanner
Country	ROU	USA
Birth date	Jul 19, 1946	Oct 15, 1951
Age	30	24
Height	183	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	6	11
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,218	2,034
Career W-L	859–331	595–298
Career earnings	$2,076,761	$1,696,198

Pre-match H2H

Ilie Nastase 2 – 3 Roscoe Tanner

Path

Ilie Nastase's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 1976	SF	Balazs Taroczy	2-6 6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 1976	QF	Vijay Amritraj	7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 1976	R16	Colin Dibley	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 26, 1976	R32	John Lloyd	6-1 6-3	W	—	Match data

Ilie Nastase's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Roscoe Tanner's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 1976	SF	Onny Parun	7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 1976	QF	Zeljko Franulovic	6-2 3-6 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 1976	R16	Timothy Noonan	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 26, 1976	R32	Henry Bunis	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data