Head to head
1
Hard
0
1
Grass
0
3
Carpet
0
John McEnroe's wins on the left · Buster C. Mottram's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
All meetings (5)
| 1981 | Frankfurt WCT | Carpet | R32 | John McEnroe | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1980 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | R32 | John McEnroe | 6-2 6-2 |
| 1979 | Wimbledon | Grass | R64 | John McEnroe | 6-7 6-2 7-6 6-2 |
| 1979 | Milan WCT | Carpet | R16 | John McEnroe | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1978 | Davis Cup WG F: USA vs GBR | Hard | RR | John McEnroe | 6-2 6-2 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.