Head to head
1
Hard
2
0
Clay
1
2
Grass
2
2
Carpet
8
Cliff Drysdale's wins on the left · Rod Laver's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (18)
| 1976 | Rome WCT | Carpet | R16 | Cliff Drysdale | 6-4 6-3 |
| 1974 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | R32 | Rod Laver | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1973 | Brussels WCT | Carpet | QF | Rod Laver | 6-3 6-2 |
| 1973 | Atlanta WCT | Carpet | SF | Rod Laver | 6-2 6-1 |
| 1972 | Quebec WCT | Carpet | SF | Rod Laver | 6-2 6-3 |
| 1972 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | F | Rod Laver | 2-6 6-3 7-5 6-3 |
| 1971 | Wembley | Carpet | QF | Rod Laver | 3-6 6-4 6-2 |
| 1971 | Quebec WCT | Carpet | SF | Rod Laver | 6-3 7-6 |
| 1971 | Miami WCT | Hard | F | Cliff Drysdale | 6-2 6-4 3-6 6-4 |
| 1970 | Wembley | Carpet | SF | Rod Laver | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1970 | Toronto | Clay | SF | Rod Laver | 3-6 12-10 6-1 |
| 1970 | Boston | Hard | SF | Rod Laver | 6-3 6-0 6-1 |
| 1970 | Bristol | Grass | QF | Rod Laver | 7-5 6-2 |
| 1970 | Dallas | Carpet | R16 | Cliff Drysdale | 4-5 RET |
| 1969 | Wimbledon | Grass | QF | Rod Laver | 6-4 6-2 6-3 |
| 1969 | Bristol | Grass | R16 | Cliff Drysdale | 4-6 6-2 7-5 |
| 1969 | Johannesburg | Hard | SF | Rod Laver | 6-1 1-6 6-1 6-2 |
| 1968 | US Open | Grass | R16 | Cliff Drysdale | 4-6 6-4 3-6 6-1 6-1 |
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.