Head to head
4
Clay
1
1
Grass
0
2
Carpet
0
Ivan Lendl's wins on the left · Mel Purcell's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (8)
| 1987 | San Francisco | Carpet | R32 | Ivan Lendl | 6-2 6-3 |
| 1985 | Wimbledon | Grass | R128 | Ivan Lendl | 6-4 7-6 7-6 |
| 1984 | Monte-Carlo | Clay | R16 | Ivan Lendl | 6-0 6-3 |
| 1984 | Rotterdam | Carpet | QF | Ivan Lendl | 6-1 6-2 |
| 1982 | Boston | Clay | QF | Mel Purcell | 2-6 6-3 6-2 |
| 1982 | Forest Hills WCT | Clay | QF | Ivan Lendl | 6-2 6-2 |
| 1982 | Delray Beach WCT | Clay | R16 | Ivan Lendl | 7-5 7-6 |
| 1980 | Tokyo-1 | Clay | SF | Ivan Lendl | 7-6 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.