Head to head
2
Hard
1
2
Carpet
0
Rod Laver's wins on the left · Brian Gottfried's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
All meetings (5)
| 1977 | Palm Springs | Hard | R32 | Brian Gottfried | 4-6 6-2 6-2 |
| 1976 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | R16 | Rod Laver | 7-6(2) 7-6(3) |
| 1975 | Tucson | Hard | R16 | Rod Laver | 6-3 6-4 |
| 1975 | Orlando WCT | Hard | SF | Rod Laver | 4-6 6-4 7-5 |
| 1975 | St. Petersburg WCT | Carpet | QF | Rod Laver | 6-3 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.