Head to head
4
Clay
12
0
Carpet
1
Jose Higueras's wins on the left · Guillermo Vilas's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (17)
| 1983 | Roland Garros | Clay | QF | Jose Higueras | 6-2 6-7 6-1 4-6 6-1 |
| 1983 | Hamburg | Clay | SF | Jose Higueras | 7-5 6-1 |
| 1982 | Kitzbuhel | Clay | SF | Guillermo Vilas | 7-5 7-5 |
| 1982 | Roland Garros | Clay | SF | Guillermo Vilas | 6-1 6-3 7-6 |
| 1981 | Rome | Clay | R16 | Guillermo Vilas | 6-1 6-1 |
| 1981 | Nations Cup | Clay | RR | Guillermo Vilas | 6-4 6-2 |
| 1981 | Houston WCT | Clay | QF | Guillermo Vilas | 6-3 6-2 |
| 1981 | Mar del Plata | Clay | SF | Guillermo Vilas | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1979 | North Conway | Clay | SF | Jose Higueras | 6-2 6-1 |
| 1978 | Indianapolis | Clay | QF | Jose Higueras | 4-6 6-4 6-3 |
| 1978 | Hamburg | Clay | R16 | Guillermo Vilas | 4-6 6-2 6-2 |
| 1977 | Bogota | Clay | F | Guillermo Vilas | 6-1 6-2 6-3 |
| 1977 | Aix-en-Provence | Clay | QF | Guillermo Vilas | 7-6 7-5 |
| 1977 | US Open | Clay | R16 | Guillermo Vilas | 6-3 6-1 |
| 1976 | Buenos Aires | Clay | QF | Guillermo Vilas | 6-3 6-4 |
| 1976 | Sao Paulo-2 | Carpet | F | Guillermo Vilas | 6-3 6-0 |
| 1975 | Boston | Clay | R64 | Guillermo Vilas | 6-2 7-5 |
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.