Head to head
1
Hard
0
4
Clay
1
1
Carpet
0
Ilie Nastase's wins on the left · Phil Dent's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (7)
| 1977 | Rome | Clay | QF | Phil Dent | 6-3 6-2 |
| 1976 | Baltimore | Carpet | QF | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 3-6 6-3 |
| 1975 | Toronto-2 | Clay | SF | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 7-6 |
| 1975 | Washington-2 | Clay | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 6-1 |
| 1975 | Rome | Clay | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 6-1 6-1 |
| 1973 | Chicago-2 | Hard | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 4-6 6-4 7-6 |
| 1969 | Barranquilla | Clay | R32 | Ilie Nastase | 6-2 6-3 |
Methodology
Head-to-head totals and surface splits exclude walkovers (no match was played), which follows ATP convention — walkover meetings still appear in the match list. The momentum chart plots the running lead across all counted meetings, oldest to newest.