Head to head
2
Hard
3
3
Clay
1
0
Grass
1
0
Carpet
3
Cliff Richey's wins on the left · Ilie Nastase's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (14)
| 1978 | Palm Springs | Hard | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 6-2 7-5 |
| 1975 | Washington-2 | Clay | QF | Cliff Richey | 7-6 6-5 RET |
| 1974 | Nottingham | Grass | R64 | Ilie Nastase | W/O |
| 1974 | Lakeway WCT | Hard | SF | Cliff Richey | 6-1 6-1 |
| 1972 | Hampton | Carpet | SF | Ilie Nastase | 3-6 6-0 6-2 |
| 1971 | Masters | Hard | RR | Ilie Nastase | 5-7 6-4 8-6 |
| 1971 | Omaha | Carpet | F | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 6-3 6-1 |
| 1970 | Washington | Clay | SF | Cliff Richey | 6-3 6-2 |
| 1970 | Wimbledon | Grass | R64 | Ilie Nastase | 7-5 1-6 2-6 6-4 6-3 |
| 1970 | Roland Garros | Clay | QF | Cliff Richey | 7-5 9-7 4-6 6-3 |
| 1970 | Brussels | Clay | SF | Ilie Nastase | 6-0 6-4 6-2 |
| 1970 | Salisbury | Hard | F | Ilie Nastase | 6-8 3-6 6-4 9-7 6-0 |
| 1970 | New York | Carpet | RR | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 |
| 1970 | Omaha | Hard | QF | Cliff Richey | 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.