Head to head
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Hard
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Clay
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4
Grass
0
5
Carpet
0
Jimmy Connors's wins on the left · John Alexander's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (13)
| 1982 | Wimbledon | Grass | R64 | Jimmy Connors | 6-3 4-6 6-1 7-6 |
| 1980 | WCT Invitational | Carpet | RR | Jimmy Connors | 6-3 6-1 |
| 1978 | Washington-2 | Clay | R16 | Jimmy Connors | 6-1 6-0 |
| 1978 | Wimbledon | Grass | R16 | Jimmy Connors | 6-2 6-2 6-4 |
| 1978 | WCT Aetna World Cup | Carpet | RR | Jimmy Connors | 6-2 6-4 |
| 1977 | WCT Challenge Cup | Carpet | RR | Jimmy Connors | 6-2 6-1 |
| 1977 | St. Louis WCT | Carpet | F | Jimmy Connors | 7-6(5) 6-2 |
| 1977 | WCT Aetna World Cup | Carpet | RR | Jimmy Connors | 6-1 6-4 |
| 1976 | Denver WCT | Carpet | QF | Jimmy Connors | W/O |
| 1976 | Houston WCT | Clay | R16 | John Alexander | W/O |
| 1976 | Palm Springs | Hard | QF | Jimmy Connors | 6-4 6-1 |
| 1974 | US Open | Grass | R32 | Jimmy Connors | 6-1 7-5 6-7 6-4 |
| 1973 | Australian Open | Grass | SF | Jimmy Connors | 7-6 6-4 6-4 |
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.