Head to head
3
Hard
0
1
Grass
1
4
Carpet
0
John McEnroe's wins on the left · Tim Gullikson's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (9)
| 1983 | Australian Open | Grass | R16 | John McEnroe | 6-3 6-2 6-2 |
| 1982 | US Open | Hard | R128 | John McEnroe | 7-6 6-4 7-5 |
| 1980 | Sydney-1 | Hard | QF | John McEnroe | 6-2 6-4 |
| 1980 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | R16 | John McEnroe | 6-4 6-2 |
| 1979 | San Francisco | Carpet | SF | John McEnroe | 6-2 6-4 |
| 1979 | Los Angeles | Carpet | R16 | John McEnroe | 6-3 6-4 |
| 1979 | Wimbledon | Grass | R16 | Tim Gullikson | 6-4 6-2 6-4 |
| 1978 | Wembley | Carpet | F | John McEnroe | 6-7 6-4 7-6 6-2 |
| 1978 | Stockholm | Hard | F | John McEnroe | 6-2 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.