Head to head
1
Hard
2
0
Clay
1
0
Grass
1
0
Carpet
4
Phil Dent's wins on the left · Brian Gottfried's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (9)
| 1981 | Columbus | Hard | R16 | Phil Dent | 6-4 6-2 |
| 1980 | Wimbledon | Grass | R16 | Brian Gottfried | 6-1 6-2 6-2 |
| 1979 | WCT Aetna World Cup | Carpet | RR | Brian Gottfried | 6-1 6-4 |
| 1978 | US Open | Hard | R128 | Brian Gottfried | 7-5 7-5 |
| 1978 | Washington-1 | Carpet | R16 | Brian Gottfried | 6-2 6-1 |
| 1977 | Roland Garros | Clay | SF | Brian Gottfried | 7-5 6-3 7-5 |
| 1976 | St. Louis WCT | Carpet | R16 | Brian Gottfried | 6-2 7-6(6) |
| 1975 | Dayton | Carpet | QF | Brian Gottfried | 4-6 6-3 6-1 |
| 1973 | Fort Worth | Hard | QF | Brian Gottfried | 4-6 6-1 RET |
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.