Head to head
2
Hard
0
1
Clay
0
4
Carpet
2
Ilie Nastase's wins on the left · Rod Laver's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (9)
| 1977 | WCT Challenge Cup | Carpet | RR | Ilie Nastase | 6-5 6-4 |
| 1976 | WCT Challenge Cup | Carpet | RR | Ilie Nastase | 6-3 6-1 |
| 1976 | WCT Challenge Cup | Hard | RR | Ilie Nastase | 7-6 6-1 4-6 6-3 |
| 1975 | World Invitational Tennis Classic | Clay | F | Ilie Nastase | 5-7 7-6 6-4 |
| 1975 | Tucson | Hard | QF | Ilie Nastase | 6-3 3-6 6-2 |
| 1974 | World Invitational Tennis Classic | Carpet | SF | Ilie Nastase | 6-3 6-4 |
| 1971 | Wembley | Carpet | F | Ilie Nastase | 3-6 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-4 |
| 1970 | Wembley | Carpet | QF | Rod Laver | 6-1 6-2 |
| 1970 | Philadelphia | Carpet | QF | Rod Laver | 4-6 6-2 8-6 |
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.