Head to head
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Grass
3
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Carpet
3
Phil Dent's wins on the left · Ray Ruffels's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (8)
| 1977 | Sydney-2 | Grass | R32 | Phil Dent | 6-7 7-5 6-4 |
| 1976 | Perth | Carpet | F | Ray Ruffels | 6-0 4-6 2-6 6-3 6-2 |
| 1975 | Dayton | Carpet | R16 | Phil Dent | 6-7 6-3 7-6 |
| 1972 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | R32 | Ray Ruffels | 6-2 3-6 7-6 |
| 1971 | Chicago WCT | Carpet | R16 | Ray Ruffels | 6-3 5-7 7-6 |
| 1969 | Melbourne | Grass | R16 | Ray Ruffels | 6-3 6-4 5-7 6-4 |
| 1968 | Adelaide | Grass | QF | Ray Ruffels | 6-2 6-4 8-6 |
| 1968 | Australian Championships | Grass | QF | Ray Ruffels | 1-6 6-2 6-1 3-6 6-0 |
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.