Head to head
0
Hard
3
0
Clay
1
1
Grass
0
0
Carpet
2
Arthur Ashe's wins on the left · Jimmy Connors's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (8)
| 1979 | Memphis | Carpet | F | Jimmy Connors | 6-4 5-7 6-3 |
| 1979 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | F | Jimmy Connors | 6-3 6-4 6-1 |
| 1979 | Masters | Carpet | RR | Arthur Ashe | W/O |
| 1976 | Pepsi Grand Slam | Clay | 3rd/4th | Jimmy Connors | 6-4 7-6(7) |
| 1975 | Wimbledon | Grass | F | Arthur Ashe | 6-1 6-1 5-7 6-4 |
| 1974 | Johannesburg-2 | Hard | F | Jimmy Connors | 7-6 6-3 6-1 |
| 1973 | Johannesburg-2 | Hard | F | Jimmy Connors | 6-4 7-6 6-3 |
| 1973 | Boston | Hard | F | Jimmy Connors | 6-3 4-6 6-4 3-6 6-2 |
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.