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Ilie Nastase def. Nikola Pilic

6-3 6-3 6-0

Match Information

Date	Jun 4, 1973*
Tournament	Roland Garros
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	F
Winner	Ilie Nastase
Score	6-3 6-3 6-0
Loser	Nikola Pilic

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ilie Nastase	Nikola Pilic
Country	ROU	CRO
Birth date	Jul 19, 1946	Aug 27, 1939
Age	26	33
Height	183	191
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	—	—
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	2,190	1,923
Career W-L	859–331	301–248
Career earnings	$2,076,761	—

Pre-match H2H

Ilie Nastase 1 – 2 Nikola Pilic

Path

Ilie Nastase's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 3, 1973	SF	Tom Gorman	6-3 6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 1, 1973	QF	Roger Taylor	6-0 6-2 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 1973	R16	Francois Jauffret	6-4 6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 27, 1973	R32	Jurgen Fassbender	6-2 6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 25, 1973	R64	Jiri Hrebec	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 23, 1973	R128	Jaime Pinto Bravo	6-1 6-4	W	—	Match data

Ilie Nastase's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Nikola Pilic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 3, 1973	SF	Adriano Panatta	6-4 6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 1, 1973	QF	Paolo Bertolucci	6-3 6-4 3-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 1973	R16	Frank Froehling	6-2 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 27, 1973	R32	Phil Dent	3-6 7-5 7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 25, 1973	R64	John Lloyd	6-1 6-7 6-0	W	—	Match data
May 23, 1973	R128	Geza Varga	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data