TENNISGOAT

Head to head

vs

🇿🇦 Cliff Drysdale

2

8 titles · 0 Slams

🇺🇸 Arthur Ashe

9

45 titles · 3 Slams

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

Cliff Drysdale leads ↑ Arthur Ashe leads ↓

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.