Head to head
1
Hard
3
0
Clay
1
0
Grass
2
1
Carpet
3
Cliff Drysdale's wins on the left · Arthur Ashe's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (11)
| 1974 | Lakeway WCT | Hard | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 6-4 2-6 6-4 |
| 1973 | Johannesburg-2 | Hard | SF | Arthur Ashe | 6-4 6-3 6-2 |
| 1972 | Alamo WCT | Hard | SF | Cliff Drysdale | 7-5 6-2 |
| 1972 | Washington WCT | Clay | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 7-6 6-0 |
| 1972 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | QF | Arthur Ashe | 7-6 6-2 |
| 1971 | WCT Finals | Carpet | QF | Arthur Ashe | 4-6 7-6 6-4 6-3 |
| 1971 | Berkeley WCT | Hard | QF | Arthur Ashe | 6-2 6-2 |
| 1971 | Australian Open | Grass | QF | Arthur Ashe | 7-6 7-6 2-6 6-2 |
| 1970 | Wembley | Carpet | R32 | Cliff Drysdale | 6-1 6-2 |
| 1970 | Paris | Carpet | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 6-1 6-3 |
| 1968 | US Open | Grass | QF | Arthur Ashe | 8-10 6-3 9-7 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.