Head to head
2
Hard
0
1
Clay
1
1
Grass
1
3
Carpet
0
Rod Laver's wins on the left · Nikola Pilic's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (9)
| 1973 | St. Louis WCT | Carpet | SF | Rod Laver | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1973 | Miami WCT | Hard | R16 | Rod Laver | 7-6(4) 6-3 |
| 1972 | Louisville WCT | Clay | R16 | Nikola Pilic | 7-6 6-3 |
| 1972 | Hilton Head WCT | Clay | R16 | Rod Laver | 6-4 7-5 |
| 1972 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | R16 | Rod Laver | 6-1 6-1 |
| 1971 | London-1 | Carpet | F | Rod Laver | 6-4 6-0 6-2 |
| 1970 | Los Angeles-2 | Hard | R16 | Rod Laver | 7-5 6-7 6-4 |
| 1970 | Bristol | Grass | F | Nikola Pilic | 6-3 1-6 6-3 |
| 1969 | Queen's Club | Grass | R16 | Rod Laver | 6-3 4-6 6-2 |
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.