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Ilie Nastase #1 def. Stan Smith #6

4-6 6-1 3-6 6-0 6-2

Match Information

Date	Nov 4, 1973*
Tournament	Paris Indoor
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Ilie Nastase
Score	4-6 6-1 3-6 6-0 6-2
Loser	Stan Smith

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Ilie Nastase	Stan Smith
Country	ROU	USA
Birth date	Jul 19, 1946	Dec 14, 1946
Age	27	26
Height	183	—
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	1	6
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,177	2,101
Career W-L	859–331	—
Career earnings	$2,076,761	$1,774,811

Pre-match H2H

Ilie Nastase 6 – 5 Stan Smith

Path

Ilie Nastase's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Nov 3, 1973	SF	Tom Okker	7-6 6-2 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Nov 3, 1973	QF	Jean Baptiste Chanfreau	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Nov 2, 1973	R16	Paolo Bertolucci	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Nov 1, 1973	R32	Haroon Rahim	4-6 6-2 9-7	W	H2H	Match data

Ilie Nastase's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Stan Smith's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Nov 3, 1973	SF	Karl Meiler	6-2 6-0 6-4	W	—	Match data
Nov 3, 1973	QF	Roscoe Tanner	3-6 6-1 6-1	W	—	Match data
Nov 2, 1973	R16	Jaime Fillol	6-2 6-7 6-2	W	—	Match data
Nov 1, 1973	R32	Jeff Borowiak	6-3 6-1	W	—	Match data