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Ilie Nastase#7 def. Ove Bengtson#210

7-5 7-5

Match Information

Date	Jun 20, 1976*
Tournament	Nottingham
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Grass
Round	SF
Winner	Ilie Nastase
Score	7-5 7-5
Loser	Ove Bengtson

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ilie Nastase	Ove Bengtson
Country	ROU	SWE
Birth date	Jul 19, 1946	Apr 5, 1945
Age	29	31
Height	183	196
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	7	210
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,191	1,644
Career W-L	859–331	134–169
Career earnings	$2,076,761	—

Pre-match H2H

Ilie Nastase 2 – 1 Ove Bengtson

Path

Ilie Nastase's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 20, 1976	QF	Ismail El Shafei	1-6 7-5 6-4	W	—	Match data
Jun 19, 1976	R16	Stan Smith	6-4 6-3	W	—	Match data
Jun 18, 1976	R32	Sashi Menon	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 17, 1976	R64	Jeff Borowiak	6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Ilie Nastase's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Ove Bengtson's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 20, 1976	QF	Roger Taylor	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 19, 1976	R16	Mike Estep	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 18, 1976	R32	Jaime Fillol	7-6 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Jun 17, 1976	R64	Richard Lewis	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data