Head to head
1
Hard
1
0
Grass
1
0
Carpet
2
John Newcombe's wins on the left · Ilie Nastase's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
All meetings (5)
| 1974 | Masters | Grass | SF | Ilie Nastase | 6-3 7-6 6-2 |
| 1973 | Masters | Hard | RR | Ilie Nastase | 7-5 6-3 |
| 1971 | Wembley | Carpet | QF | Ilie Nastase | 9-7 6-2 |
| 1971 | Richmond | Carpet | SF | Ilie Nastase | 6-2 4-6 7-6 |
| 1969 | Las Vegas | Hard | R32 | John Newcombe | 6-3 1-6 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.