Head to head
1
Hard
0
1
Clay
3
1
Grass
0
2
Carpet
3
Ilie Nastase's wins on the left · Brian Gottfried's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (11)
| 1982 | Milan | Carpet | R32 | Ilie Nastase | 1-6 6-1 7-6 |
| 1979 | Columbus | Clay | SF | Brian Gottfried | 6-1 6-1 |
| 1978 | Houston WCT | Clay | F | Brian Gottfried | 3-6 6-2 6-1 |
| 1977 | Roland Garros | Clay | QF | Brian Gottfried | 4-6 3-6 6-2 6-2 6-3 |
| 1976 | Los Angeles | Carpet | SF | Brian Gottfried | 6-2 6-2 |
| 1975 | Hamburg | Clay | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 7-5 6-1 |
| 1974 | London-2 | Carpet | R32 | Brian Gottfried | 6-2 6-4 |
| 1974 | Wimbledon | Grass | R64 | Ilie Nastase | 6-3 6-2 9-8 |
| 1973 | Kingston | Hard | F | Ilie Nastase | 6-1 6-7 6-3 |
| 1973 | Salisbury | Carpet | QF | Brian Gottfried | 6-2 6-1 |
| 1972 | New York-1 | Carpet | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 6-1 6-1 |
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.