Head to head
1
Hard
0
0
Clay
2
0
Grass
1
1
Carpet
3
Jan Kodes'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 (8)
| 1978 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | R32 | Rod Laver | 6-1 6-3 |
| 1975 | Boston | Clay | R16 | Rod Laver | 6-1 6-0 |
| 1974 | Denver WCT | Carpet | QF | Jan Kodes | 6-2 6-4 |
| 1974 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | SF | Rod Laver | 6-4 1-6 6-4 6-0 |
| 1973 | Davis Cup EUR SF: AUS vs TCH | Grass | RR | Rod Laver | 6-3 7-5 7-5 |
| 1971 | Stockholm WCT | Hard | QF | Jan Kodes | 4-6 6-4 7-6 |
| 1971 | Rome WCT | Clay | F | Rod Laver | 7-5 6-3 6-3 |
| 1970 | Masters | Carpet | RR | Rod Laver | 6-4 6-3 |
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.