Head to head
Rivalry summary
Roger Taylor and Ilie Nastase met 12 times on the ATP tour between 1969 and 1975. Ilie Nastase leads the head-to-head 11–1 against Roger Taylor. By surface, they are level 1–1 on hard; Nastase leads 7–0 on clay; Nastase leads 2–0 on grass. They contested 1 finals, with Taylor winning 0 of them.
1
Hard
1
0
Clay
7
0
Grass
2
0
Carpet
1
Roger Taylor'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 (12)
| 1975 | Hamburg | Clay | QF | Ilie Nastase | 6-1 7-5 |
| 1974 | Barcelona-2 | Clay | R32 | Ilie Nastase | 6-1 9-11 6-4 |
| 1974 | Madrid | Clay | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 6-1 |
| 1974 | Boston | Clay | R32 | Ilie Nastase | 6-0 6-3 |
| 1973 | London / Queen's Club | Grass | F | Ilie Nastase | 9-8 6-3 |
| 1973 | Roland Garros | Clay | QF | Ilie Nastase | 6-0 6-2 7-6 |
| 1972 | US Open | Grass | R64 | Ilie Nastase | 7-5 6-2 6-7 2-6 7-6 |
| 1971 | Stockholm WCT | Hard | R64 | Roger Taylor | 7-5 6-4 |
| 1971 | Monte-Carlo | Clay | SF | Ilie Nastase | 2-6 7-5 6-1 6-1 |
| 1970 | Salisbury | Hard | SF | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 6-8 6-3 6-3 |
| 1970 | Philadelphia | Carpet | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1969 | Hamburg | Clay | R32 | Ilie Nastase | 6-4 3-6 6-3 7-5 |
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.